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“Click It Or Ticket” Campaign to Begin in Kansas

“Click It Or Ticket” Campaign to Begin in Kansas

“Click It Or Ticket” Campaign to Begin in Kansas

Starting on May 21st and continuing through the 31st, there will be an increased police presence on Sedgwick County roadways as part of the 2021 Kansas “Click It or Ticket” campaign.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office joins 180 other law enforcement agencies in enforcing Kansas occupant restraint and other traffic laws. The campaign is supported by a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation.

The aim of the Click It or Ticket campaign is to reduce the number of preventable deaths and injuries that occur in vehicle crashes when drivers and passengers are not wearing their seatbelts.

Roughly 375 people are involved in 170 crashes each day statewide. Only 7% of those without a seatbelt are likely to avoid being injured, and nearly half of all fatalities occur among those who are not wearing a seatbelt.

The 21st through the 31st will be met with extra enforcement of both the Kansas Safety Belt Use Act and the Kansas Child Passenger Safety Act.

Kansas’ overall adult seat belt compliance rate is 85% and ranges, by county, from 62% to 97%, with occupants in rural counties generally less likely to buckle up than those in urban counties. Almost two-thirds of the state’s fatality crashes occur on rural roadways despite the fact that these roads account for only one-third of all crashes.

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