Nearly one in four Missourians still fail to regularly wear their safety belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle. That’s 25% of all motorists.
Among those least likely to buckle up are young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people who live in rural areas, and nighttime drivers.
The Rolla Police Department is joining with law enforcement agencies across the state on Nov. 18 for an aggressive “Click It or Ticket” mobilization to crack down on Missouri’s safety belt law violators and to reduce highway fatalities.
Failure to regularly wear a safety belt can be deadly. In 2007, a driver in a Missouri traffic crash has a 1 in 32 chance of being killed if they were not wearing a seat belt. In cases where the driver wore a seat belt, their chance of being killed was 1 in 1,294.
For more information on Missouri seat belt usage, please visit www.saveMOlives.com.
Any questions about this activity can be directed to Corporal Mayfield at 573-308-1213.
