Click It Or Ticket: Green Brook Police to Crack Down On Unbuckled Drivers

Watchung/Green Brook, NJ -- Buckle up!

Watchung and Green Brook Police Departments will join law enforcement officers from throughout Somerset and Hunterdon counties to be cracking down on unbuckled motorists and passengers.

The national 2016 “Click it or Ticket” campaign begins Monday, May 23 and will run through June 5.

“Using a seat belt is the simplest way for a driver and his or her passengers to protect themselves when traveling. In 2013, 21,000 people in the U.S. were killed in traffic crashes, and almost half of them were unrestrained,” stated Gary Poedubicky, Acting Director of the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety in a release.

This year the campaign is focusing on rear passengers. Currently 91.36% of front seat passengers wear their seat belts. However, only 39% of rear passengers buckle up.

“This is a concern,” Poedubicky stated. “We need to drive home the message that all motor vehicle occupants need to buckle up during every trip, in every seating position.”

2015 statistics:

• 372 New Jersey police agencies participated
• 26,308 seat belt citations
• 4,969 speeding summonses
• and made 833 impaired driving arrests.