Buckle up for travel: Click It or Ticket in effect

Posted 11/26/13

The Warwick Police Department will join local law enforcement officers, RI State Police and highway safety advocates for a Statewide Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization, which runs …

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Buckle up for travel: Click It or Ticket in effect

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The Warwick Police Department will join local law enforcement officers, RI State Police and highway safety advocates for a Statewide Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization, which runs from Nov. 25 through Dec. 1.

The Thanksgiving Holiday is one of the most traveled extended weekends of the year where families visit relatives and friends, but it is also one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. With the added traffic and risk, we need to remind motorists to buckle up, every trip, every time.

During the mobilization, officers will be ticketing motorists who fail to wear their seat belts – both day and night. We want to keep everyone safe on our roadways and to prevent the senseless injuries and deaths because someone made the wrong choice not to wear their seat belt.

With proper seat belt use, research shows that the risk of fatal injury to front seat passenger car occupants is reduced by 45 percent, and the risk of moderate to serious injury is reduced by 50 percent.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), seat belts saved more than 12,500 lives nationwide in 2010 alone.

“That’s why the Warwick Police Department is strongly supporting the Click It or Ticket mobilization,” said Lt. Gilbert. “We will be out in force to remind drivers and occupants to always wear their seat belts – both day and night.”

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  • davebarry109

    PLEASE tell me why grown men insist on telling other grown men what to do for their own safety? People not wearing their seatbelts are hurting no one but themselves. Why is this a law? Mind your own business. Oh, wait...I know the answer. The feds tie construction monies to the enforcement effort. If the cops don't write x number of tickets or reduce the non-wearing of seat belts to 'an acceptable level', construction money is in jeopardy. THe feds agree to pay these cops time and 1/2 to write these tickets.

    I am all for highway safety but concentrate your efforts on things that hurt OTHER people...like the jerks texting or applying make up.

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Report this

  • HerbTokerman

    Another example of police officers time being wasted by being tax collectors rather than on investigating or preventing actual crime.

    This is nothing more than our general assembly selling out rhode island's founding principles of liberty and independence in exchange for federal funds for transportation.

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Report this