For the fifth year in a row officers participating in Delaware’s Click It or Ticket effort issued fewer seat belt citations than the year before. In 2008, officers issued 2,347 citations – that is 335 more issued than in 2009, 708 more issued than in 2010, and 1,152 more issued than in 2011, and 1,306 more than this year.
Office of Highway Safety officials believe that this trend means more motorists are buckling up, but still believe more needs to be done to convince more residents to join the effort. Many Delawareans continue to believe that seat belts and shoulder harnesses increase the risk of death in a vehicle crash when the opposite is true. Read more by clicking on the release from the State of Delaware.
via 2012 Click It Or Ticket Enforcement Results | State of Delaware News.
