St. Charles Police are Participating in Holiday Safety Traffic Campaign

Submission by the St. Charles Police Department 

Historically, Thanksgiving is the busiest travel time of the year, putting more people on the road and increasing the likelihood of crashes.

Each year in our country, tens of thousands of passenger vehicle occupants die in motor vehicle crashes. In 2013, in the United States, more than 300 people were killed in crashes on Thanksgiving weekend alone. It’s a sad statistic, but even sadder is that many of those deaths could have been prevented with one simple click of a seat belt.

Whether you’re going across town or across the state this Thanksgiving, please make sure everyone in the car is wearing their seat belt. By law in Illinois, everyone must wear a seat belt no matter what seating position. St. Charles officers are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing a seat belt and arrest those choosing to drive impaired.

St. Charles Police officers will be out in force through Sunday November 29, conducting DUI and seat belt enforcement in conjunction with the Click It or Ticket and Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over traffic safety campaigns. St. Charles Police will also be participating in the Kane County State’s Attorney’s No-Refusal Operation. For more information visit the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office Facebook Page.

For more information about the Click It or Ticket and the Drive Sober Get Pulled Over programs, please visit www.buckleupillinois.org.