LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– The Michigan Workplace of Freeway Security Planning (OHSP) is launching its “Click It or Ticket” marketing campaign. Regulation Enforcement will enhance patrols statewide to make sure individuals are carrying their seat belts.
In response to the College of Michigan Transportation Analysis Institute, 223 folks had been killed whereas not carrying a seatbelt, which accounted for 39.5% of all fatalities for which seat belt use was identified in Michigan.
“The enforcement period is about saving livesplain and simple,” mentioned Alicia Sledge, OHSP interim director in a information launch despatched to six Information. “Wearing a seat belt is the single most effective way to protect yourself on the road, and yet far too many people still take that risk. As warmer weather draws more people outside, were urging everyonedrivers and passengers aliketo buckle up every trip, every time. Wearing your seatbelt is not just the safe thing to doits the law.”
OHSP experiences that the variety of unrestrained vehicle-occupant fatalities in Michigan decreased from 232 in 2022 to 223 in 2023, and the variety of unrestrained crashes elevated from 4,480 in 2022 to 4,579 in 2023.
The marketing campaign will final till June 1, 2025.
