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Michigan’s Memorial Day 2014 Click It or Ticket Campaign Expanded to 40 Counties
Heading out for the long Memorial Day weekend? Expect extra law enforcement on the road looking for seat belt and other violations.
Michigan’s Click It or Ticket campaign kicked off Monday, with law enforcement agencies throughout the state kicking their seat-belt-law enforcement campaign in high gear before Memorial Day 2014 travel begins.
Enforcement has been expanded to 40 counties this year – an increase from 26 counties during the Memorial Day travel weekend in 2013 – according to a news release from the Michigan State Police and the state’s Office of Highway Safety Planning.
Local police departments, sheriff’s offices and Michigan State Police posts in 40 counties will conduct federally funded safety belt enforcement zones through the busy Memorial Day travel weekend.
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Last year, officers found a 93 percent compliance rate in seat belt use. But victims were unbuckled in nearly half of fatal vehicle crashes last year, and remain the most effective safety feature available in vehicles today. When seat belts are used properly, the risk of being killed in a crash is reduced by nearly 45 percent, according to research.
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