'Click it or Ticket' Campaign Begins May 21

(Source: West Bloomfield Police Department)

WBPD will participate in the annual spring Click it or Ticket campaign by conducting seat belt enforcement patrols and ticketing unbelted motorists May 21-June 3.

The campaign, as well as the enforcement effort, is paid for with federal traffic safety funds from the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning. In 2011, nearly 200 people who died in traffic crashes in Michigan were not wearing seat belts. Michigan’s 2011 seat belt use rate was 94.5 percent, down from a record high of 97.9 percent. 

The mobilization is about saving lives, not just writing tickets. Buckling up can reduce the risk of serious injury or death by nearly 50 percent. 

Michigan law requires all drivers, front seat passengers, and passengers 15 and younger in any position in the vehicle to be buckled up.  Children must be in a car seat or booster seat until they are eight years old or 4’9” tall, whichever comes first.