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Traffic
Stop Safety Tips
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Click It or Ticket.
From May 23 through June 5 the
Stephenville Police Department will be out in force, participating in the
"Click It or Ticket" enforcement mobilization.
There are still a lot of people in this
jurisdiction who do not think they should buckle up. We want these drivers
and passengers to know that buckling up is the smart move that gets them on
down the road. We'll be writing tickets for the folks who just don't get it.
We'd rather write them a ticket than see people injured or dead in a crash
down the road.
Stephenville Police Department is also
participating in "Buckle Up in Your Truck" an educational campaign to convince
pickup truck occupants in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas,
and the Indian Nations to wear their seatbelts.
Well over a million pickup truck drivers and passengers in the five state region
are still not buckling up, resulting in more than 1,000 pickup occupants dying
every year in traffic crashes.
Pickup trucks in fatal crashes roll over
twice as often as passenger cars. Wearing your safety belt reduces the risk
of dying in a rollover crash by up to 80 percent. In 2003, 699 Texas pickup
truck drivers and passengers died in traffic crashes, according to National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) crash data.
NHTSA crash cost estimates indicate that
if safety belt use in pickup trucks was raised to the same level as in other
passenger vehicles in all of the South Central states, 132 lives would be
saved and 3,032 injuries could be prevented resulting in an economic savings
of $300 million dollars.
If you have any
additional questions,
please contact the
Stephenville Police Department
at 254-918-1200. Or ask any
Stephenville Police Officer.
