Click It or Ticket Begins Monday

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Beginning Monday there will be more officers on the road throughout the state, and the area, looking for traffic violations.

Both the Saline County Sheriff's Office and Salina Police Department are participating in the "Click It or Ticket" enforcement campaign. Extra deputies will be on patrol to aggressively enforce all Kansas traffic laws. Salina Police plan to devote 100 overtime hours to the effort.
Seatbelt and child passenger safety are the main focus of the campaign.

The "Click It or Ticket" enforcement campaign runs May 22nd through June 4th. The Saline County Sheriff's Office and Salina Police Department are among 130 law enforcement agencies, statewide, including the Kansas Highway Patrol, that will participate in "Click It or Ticket."
 

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Saline County Sheriff's Office Press Release

May 16, 2006

Get Ready for Click It or Ticket

Drivers in Saline County are warned to be alert to heightened traffic enforcement in May as additional officers of the Saline County Sheriff’s Office will be placed on the roadways to aggressively enforce all Kansas traffic laws. Supported by a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation, the officers will be participating in the Kansas Click It or Ticket enforcement campaign, May 22 through June 4. As such, there will be strict enforcement of the Safety Belt Use and Child Passenger Safety Acts during that time.

The Safety Belt Use Act specifies that all front seat passengers must be buckled in. The Child Passenger Safety Act authorizes officers to pull over any vehicle suspected of holding child passengers under the age of 14 who are not properly restrained. It stipulates that children under the age of four must be secured in a federally-approved child safety seat, and children, aged four through 13, must be securely belted in. In addition, this law prohibits persons under the age of 14 from riding in any part of a vehicle not intended for carrying passengers, such as a pickup bed.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office is among 130 law enforcement agencies, statewide, including the Salina Police Department and Kansas Highway Patrol, that will participate in Click It or Ticket. Our aim is to drastically reduce the number of preventable deaths and injuries that occur when unbelted drivers and passengers are involved in traffic crashes. Last year, traffic crashes claimed the lives of four-hundred, twenty-eight (428) people. Tragically, of those who died, it is estimated that over 70 percent were not wearing seat belts.

Across the state, only 69% of front seat passengers belt in, ranking Kansas 42nd in the nation for seat belt compliance. Compliance rates, by county, range from 82% to 49%, with the highest rates generally found in the more populous counties, and the lowest rates in the least populous counties. This urban-rural belt rate split is most perilous for those living in the rural counties since most fatalities occur in those areas. More crashes occur in urban areas, but they are less likely to be fatal.

More disheartening to the law enforcement community, however, is the low compliance rate for child passenger restraint. Across the state, only 59% of children, ages 0-13, are restrained; county rates vary from 41% to 73%, with rural counties, again, generally lagging well behind their metropolitan counterparts.

According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, “Everyone knows there is both a seat belt law and a law directing that children should be properly restrained, and I believe that everyone knows it is a smart thing to do – that lives are precious. But too many drivers are convinced that, ‘It won’t happen to me….at least not this time.’ However, as a law enforcement officer, I can tell you it does happen – too often. Are other drivers perfect? If your vehicle is not a Buckle up Zone, you’re acting as if you think they are. You’re acting as if they can drive responsibly while drunk or sleepy, or while dialing a cell phone, changing stations, drinking a soda, checking makeup, disciplining kids in the back, or even while reacting to hot coffee in their lap. Adult and child restraints are your best protection against all forms of driver inattention, even your own.”

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office is making a clear statement that it is committed to aggressively ticketing violators of Kansas passenger restraint laws, and all traffic infractions that make our roadways unsafe.
 
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