Sheriff’s Office Launches Special Traffic Enforcement Campaign

provided the following news release:

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 5 through 24.

In Illinois 1,363 persons were killed in 1,233 fatal crashed in 2005. In 2005 there were 121,670 persons injured in crashes. The cost per death in 2005 was $1,150,000 and the cost per nonfatal disabling injury was $60,500. 

Many lives will be saved by changing public attitudes regarding the non-use of safety belts and child safety seats. It has been shown that visible enforcement programs focusing on these violations offer the greatest potential for changing these behaviors.

That is why The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office announced they will be joining hundreds of other law enforcement and highway safety agencies across Illinois from November 14th, 2011 through November 27th, 2011 to take part in the Enforcement effort.

Make no mistake —our message is simple.  No matter what you drive — a  passenger car, pickup, sport utility vehicle or motorcycle — if we catch you speeding, driving while impaired, not wearing your seatbelt, or failing to secure a child in an approved child safety seat,  we will issue you a citation.  

We will be out in force conducting increased traffic enforcement to prevent automobile crashes, to get drunk drivers off the road—and save lives that might otherwise be lost.

Driving with a BAC of 0.08 or higher is illegal in Illinois. Yet we continue to see far too many people suffer debilitating injuries and loss of their loved ones as a result of impaired driving. This careless disregard for human life must stop. 

The law enforcement crackdown is funded by federal traffic safety funds through IDOT’s Division of Traffic Safet