Palmyra police participating in ‘Click It or Ticket’ program

The Palmyra Police Department has announced it is joining with law enforcement agencies from May 19 through June 1 for an aggressive national “Click It or Ticket” mobilization to crack down on Missouri’s safety belt law violators and to reduce highway fatalities.
“Safety belts clearly save lives. But unfortunately too many folks still need a tough reminder, so we are going to be out in force buckling down on those who are not buckled up.” said Chief Eddie Bogue. “Unless you want to risk a ticket, or worse - your life, you need to remember to ‘Click It or Ticket’ day and night, and arrive alive.”
Nearly one in four Missourians still fail to regularly wear their safety belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle. Among those least likely to buckle up: young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people who live in rural areas, and nighttime drivers. 
Failure to regularly wear a safety belt can be deadly. In 2007, a driver in a Missouri traffic crash has a one in 32 chance of being killed if he or she was not wearing a seat belt. In cases where the driver wore a seat belt, the motorist’s chance of being killed was one in 1,309.
Bogue said regular safety belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes. 
For more information on the national “Click It or Ticket” mobilization, please visit www.buckleupamerica.org.
For information on Missouri seatbelt usage, visit www.saveMOlives.com.