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Issue: # 200819 August 4, 2008
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
In This Issue
Elliot Equipment Health Fair Attracts Employees
The Come Home Safe Campaign Launching Soon
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Greetings!
  
Would you be surprised to learn that two people died in 2006 in car crashes within 5 miles of your house? 
 
A new, interactive Web site being launched by University of Minnesota researchers will let you learn how many auto fatalities occurred near you by going to the Maps/Safe Streets tab and typing your address.  By going to the individual links for each accident, you can learn information about the victim, including whether a safety belt restraint was being used. You can quickly see what intersections to avoid, and confirm your belief that safety belts are a good idea. 
 
Researchers in the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) have mapped out every fatality in the nation with details on each death. 

Elliot Equipment Health Fair Attracts Employees
Elliot Equipment employee health fair attracted vendors and employees alike and Click It air fresheners were a popular item.   Elliott Health Fair
 
Invite Click It to your next Health Fair, or order plenty of Click It items to have on display.   
 
Productivity at any company is an ongoing challenge.  Safety is a foundation for productivity, and safety belts both on and off the job are a must.  
 
CIDRI air freshener  Also available are Cycle Logical air fresheners, to remind drivers to cyclelogical air freshenerbe on the lookout for motorcycles sharing the roads. Email cidri@safenebraska.org to order those air fresheners.
 
The Come Home Safe Campaign Launching Soon
Is your area high school signed up for the Come Home Safe program this fall?  Check out our website to see if the high school in your town has committed to participating. Come Home Safe POSTER

In 2007, teen drivers 15-19 accounted for seven percent of the licensed drivers in the state of Nebraska, 24% of the reported crashes, and 13% or 33 of the 256 fatalities in the state.
Of those fatalities, 22 of those teenagers were not wearing their safety belts, and in 4 cases it is unknown whether they were belted.  
 
Make sure the high school in your town is participating in the Come Home Safe campaign. They'll have the chance to win $1000 just for reporting their numbers.
Let's get Nebraska teens safely buckled up before they head out!
 
         

The "Click It Chronicle," our Click It Campaign e-letter, published whenever there is news, is available to all those interested in increasing safety belt usage.  Please share this information freely. Take the information, copy to friends, businesses and organizations with the same concerns.  Using the information provided will help reduce the needless fatalities and injuries on our highways and the associated costs. To subscribe to this e-letter, join the coalition, or be removed from the list, contact the Click It Team at cidri@safenebraska.org.