Delaware is helping kick off the annual Click It or Ticket seat belt safety campaign this week.
First State law enforcement is joining forces with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and others nationwide in the effort - starting with Monday’s Border 2 Border initiative.
“The Border to Border initiative on May 20 is a nationwide enforcement for buckling up. Specifically, every state is going to have an enforcement for seat belt and occupant protection between the hours of 4 p.m. to 8 p.m,” said Delaware Office of Highway Safety spokeswoman Cynthia Cavett.
She says the reason the crackdown will happen between 4 and 8 p-m is because that’s when seat belt use it at its lowest.
“Across the country statistics have shown that the most time-frame for when people are not buckling up, and what they’re showing for fatalities unfortunately, is the 4 p.m. to 8 o’clock hour across every state - that people are not buckling up and they’re getting killed in crashes,” said Cavett.
Cavett says there were 34 unbuckled fatalities in Delaware in 2018.
She warns law enforcement will not hand out warnings during the Border 2 Border initiative Monday between 4 and 8 p.m.; everyone stopped for not wearing a seat belt will be ticketed.