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2021 Click It or Ticket Mobilization

May 26, 2021 3:59 PM

From May 24 - June 6 the Madison Police Department will be participating in the national Click it or Ticket mobilization.  Officer will be focusing on seatbelt violations and other hazardous driving behaviors.  

On Monday, May 24th, members of MPD Traffic Enforcement and Safety Team (TEST) and additional officers conducted enhanced enforcement projects focussing on seatbelt use and hazardous driving behaviors.  Officers conducted enforcement operations on both the Beltline and Fish Hatchery Rd.  Officers conducted a total of 21 stops, primarily for speeding violations.  The high speed recorded on the Beltline was 86 MPH (31 MPH over the posted speed limit).

Please slow down and buckle-up.

These additional enforcement efforts are made possible through traffic overtime grants provided by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

2021 Click It or Ticket Fact Sheet

May 24-June 6, 2021 is the national mobilization Click It or Ticket (CIOT). State and local law enforcement agencies across the nation are stepping up their enforcement efforts for motorists who aren't wearing their seat belts.

This year's CIOT seat belt mobilization effort will include some law enforcement agencies participating in a Border to Border (B2B) initiative. B2B occurs on May 24, and is a one-day, 4-hour national seat-belt awareness kickoff event coordinated by participating state highway safety offices and their respective law enforcement liaisons. B2B is a coordinated highly visible seat belt enforcement effort, encouraging drivers and passengers on heavily traveled, highway corridors, to buckle up. 

Face the Facts

  • The national seat belt use rate in 2019 was 90.7%. Wisconsin's 2020 safety belt usage rate is 89%, down from 90% in 2019. Of all the car and light truck occupants killed in Wisconsin traffic crashes last year, 43% were not wearing a seat belt.
  • On Wisconsin roads over the last five years, the highest number of deaths occurred in two age groups:
    • 20 to 24-year-olds – of which 42% were unbelted
    • 25 to 29-year-olds – of which 35% were unbelted
  • Nationally, men make up the majority of those killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes. In 2019, 65% of the 22,215 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed were men. Men also wear their seat belts at a lower rate than women do -- 51% of men killed in crashes were unrestrained, compared to 40% of women killed in crashes.
  • According to the 2020 Wisconsin Seat Belt Survey, those in the state least likely to buckle up are:
    • Drivers and passengers in southeast Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties) (14%)
    • Young drivers and passengers (16 -24) in southeast Wisconsin (22%)
    • Males across the state (13%)
    • Non-white drivers and passengers in southeast Wisconsin (26%)
    • Drivers and passengers in pickup trucks across the state (17%)

Bust the Myths

  • Vehicle type: There seems to be a misconception among those who drive and ride in pickup trucks that their larger vehicles will protect them better than other vehicle types would in a crash. The numbers say otherwise: nationally, 58% of pickup truck occupants who were killed in 2019 were not buckled. That's compared to 43% of passenger car occupants who were not wearing seat belts when they were killed. Regardless of vehicle type, seat belt use is the single most effective way to stay alive in a crash.
  • Seating position: Too many people wrongly believe they are safe in the back seat unrestrained. Forty-five percent of all front-seat passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2019 were unrestrained, but 58% of those killed in back seats were unrestrained.
  • Rural versus urban locations: People who live in rural areas might believe their crash exposure is lower, but in 2019, there were 11,971 passenger vehicle fatalities in rural locations, compared to 10,187 fatalities in urban locations. Out of those fatalities, 48% of those killed in the rural locations were not wearing their seat belts, compared to 45% in urban locations.

Click It or Ticket -- Day and Night

  • High-visibility seat belt enforcement is important 24 hours a day, but nighttime is especially deadly for unbuckled occupants. In 2019, 55% of passenger vehicle occupants killed at night (6 p.m.–5:59 a.m.) were not wearing their seat belts.
  • Click It or Ticket isn't about citations; it's about saving lives. In 2019, there were 9,466 unbuckled passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in the United States. To help prevent crash fatalities, we need to step up seat belt enforcement, day and night.

Learn more about the Click It or Ticket mobilization at www.nhtsa.gov/ciot.

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