May 28, 2021
By News Director Jared Atha
As the Memorial Day holiday approaches, the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office and Oklahoma law enforcement want to remind all drivers of the importance of seat belt use. The annual ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign is a high-visibility enforcement effort that runs from now through June 6. Aimed at enforcing seat belt use to help keep families safe, the national seat belt campaign runs concurrent with the busy travel season.
Commissioner John Scully of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety reminds travelers that Oklahoma law requires front seat passengers to wear their seat belt, but encourage everyone in the vehicle to buckle up.
According to the OHP, in 2019, 208 people were killed in crashes on Oklahoma roadways who were not buckled up. While not every crash is survivable, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has stats that show a 50 percent increase in survivability when one wears a seat belt.
More than 55 agencies in Oklahoma have signed up to have extra personnel looking for seat belt violations. Participating law enforcement agencies will be taking a no-excuses approach to seat belt law enforcement, writing citations day and night.
