Greetings!
For Mother's Day, my 18 year-old daughter made me a card that said "Everytime I put on my seatbelt, I think of you." She put ribbon on it to look like a lap and shoulder safety belt. It was funny, because obviously I work on Click It--Don't Risk It.
Wouldn't it be great if everyone thought of their mother or other loved ones and always fastened his or her safety belt?
While I would be thrilled if my daughter would listen to everything I say and actually do it, I am glad that she chose buckling up as a place to start following my advice.
Cherie Ferber |
| So far over 200 Nebraska High Schools are Participating in the Come Home Safe Campaign |
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We currently have over 200 high schools signed up for the Come Home Safe campaign scheduled for fall 2008. This represents over half of the high schools in Nebraska, and we're still signing schools up!.
One of these schools will win $1000. Make sure your local high school knows about this opportunity and offer to help with the seatbelt checks. Help Nebraska teenagers come home safe by remembering to always buckle up, every trip, every time.
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Click It or Ticket |
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Lincoln-In 2007, 96 passenger vehicle occupants died in traffic crashes in Nebraska between the hours of 6 p.m. and 5:59 a.m., according to the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety and 80 percent of those passenger vehicle occupants were NOT wearing their safety belts at the time of the fatal crash. The proportion of unbuckled deaths at night is  considerably higher than the alarming 63 percent of passenger vehicle occupants who were killed and not wearing their safety belts during daytime hours across the state. According to Fred Zwonechek, that is why 25 police departments, 27 sheriff's offices, the Nebraska State Patrol, and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will be adding 13,000 hours of enforcement from May 19 to June 1 to participate in this national "Click It or Ticket" safety belt emphasis to increase safety belt use and reduce traffic fatalities. A new emphasis this year will be convincing motorists to obey the law and buckle up-day and night. "Our crash data indicates that there is a problem with drivers and passengers not buckling up at night-when the risk of a fatal crash is greatest," Zwonechek said. "This is an indication that these individuals are not taking the law seriously. This is why all these officers will be out in force making sure that everyone is buckled up-day and night."
"The real tragedy of this is that of the 159 passenger vehicle fatalities in Nebraska last year, that more than half of these individuals would be alive today if they had just taken the two seconds it takes to buckle up," Zwonechek added.
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