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Issue: # 200918 August 7, 2009
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
In This Issue
Safety and Wellness Fair at Boys Town West!
Norfolk and Howells win with NOYS!
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Another Nebraskan Saved by the Belt!

On May 4, NTV's Chief Forecaster, Kent Boughton, was in a serious car crash around 3 p.m. on Highway 6 and 34, about a mile west of Axtell. Nebraska TV is the ABC affiliate serving Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings, and Lincoln.  (NTV's home page)

The vehicle Boughton was driving collided with a semi-trailer truck. Although the semi-driver was not injured, Boughton suffered injuries to the hip, hand, and knee. The good news is that seat belt use and airbags prevented further injury.

Another instance of a safety belt totally changing the outcome of a story!  Thanks to all of you for the work you do in promoting safety belt use!  The small act of buckling a safety belt does the big job of preventing injury and death in car crashes.

The Grand Island Independent updated the story on Thursday July 30.
  

Safety and Wellness Fair at Boys Town West!
It's always interesting to attend a Health Fair with lots of Medical Personnel.

Normally, it's much like singing to the choir in terms of everyone agreeing that safety belts are necessary and that they change outcomes in crashes. Boys Town personnel were no different--and it's always pleasant to have everyone agree that safety belts are vital!

Invite Click-It to your next health fair or other event!

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Norfolk and Howells win with NOYS!
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Two Norfolk projects won $1000 each in the National Organization for Youth Safety (NOYS) teen traffic safety competition.  Congratulations to the hard-working teens and their adviser, Mark Claussen!

RAOK Jr. Optimist Club
Be a "Smartie" not a "Dum-Dum"
Norfolk, NE  
 
RAOK Jr. Optimist Club members at the Norfolk Middle School performed safety beltMark RAOK for NOYS compliance checks in collaboration with the Norfolk PD twice during May - once at each entrance to the school. 

Those students caught wearing a safety belt were given a package of "Smarties" while those not wearing one were given a "DumDum" pop.  Norfolk PD officers gave information to drivers about why safety belts are important!


Norfolk Panther Octagon Club
"Driven by Distraction"
Norfolk, NE
 
Mark intexticated Octogon members at Norfolk Senior High developed key tags and t-shirts with the message "Don't Drive while InTEXTicated".  Club members handed out 500 key tags while wearing their t-shirts during the lunch period on May 15th.  Club members also filmed a 30-second commercial with CableOne that aired over 700 times during June and July thanks to support from local advertisers and a grant from the State Farm Foundation and Project Ignition! 

The Howells-Dodge FCCLA also won $1000 from NOYS with their project called Bike/Walk Safety.

Make safety belts the focus of your next safety project!
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.