Click It or Ticket is a nationwide high visibility enforcement and public awareness campaign aimed at increasing seat belt use both nationally and locally. In Delaware the Office of Highway Safety Coordinates the program which is scheduled to run from May 4th - May 30th this year. The only goal of this important highway safety initiative is to save lives by increasing the number of people who wear their seatbelts in accordance with Delaware law.

Public awarenes efforts in the form of billboards, TV, radio, print and internet advertising will begin May 4th. Then, starting May 10th, 30 State, County and Municipal law enforcement agencies will conduct daily traffic safety checkpoints and patrols both day and night. Seat belt use is 10% lower at night that it is during the daytime, even though your risk of being killed in a crash triples at night!

Daily enforcement of our state's traffic safety laws will continue through Memorial Day. Officers are primarily looking for seat belt law violators, but they will also be on the lookout for impaired, aggressive and speeding drivers who by the very nature of their risk taking behavior are less likely to wear seat belts.

During the campaign we'll be sharing information through many of our corporate and safety partners by providing them with posters, brochures, and table tents to distribute to their employees. Click It or Ticket rounds out in June with the OHS staff conducting two weeks of observational seat belt surveys to determine any increases in seat belt use.

Why should you care about wearing your seat belt? Well sure, because it's the law...but also because buckling up improves your risk of surviving a crash and/or avoiding serious injury by approximately 50%! Those are really good odds. By not buckling up, not only are you breaking the law but you're also putting you and your families emotional and financial health at risk should you be killed or injured in a crash.

So think about the ones who love you and want you to stay around. Buckle up every trip and remember...Click It or Ticket!