FLORIDA SEATBELT LAWS ♦ Click it or Ticket ♦ Seat belts save lives

STATEWIDE – March 1 – 15 will be the "Click It or Ticket" safety-belt enforcement campaign statewide. The crackdown will be looking for drivers and passengers – including children younger than 18 - will be ticketed if they aren't buckled.

The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Zephyrhills Police and Dade City Police are joining the Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Transportation in "Click It or Ticket" safety-belt enforcement campaign. During the campaign, some agencies will be conducting seat-belt checkpoints both day and night looking for violators.

Thirty percent of Florida traffic fatalities are due drivers and passengers to failing to buckle up. Safety belts are eighty percent effective in reducing fatalities in light trucks, including sport utility vehicles, during rollover crashes. According to law enforcement officials, seatbelts also help prevent individuals from being totally ejected during a crash, reducing the risk of a fatal injury.

Florida Injury Attorney G. Alan Tripp and the injury law team at the Tripp Law Firm encourages you to “Buckle Up.” http://www.trippfirm.com/

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In a recent article published by BAYNEWS-9, from May 18 to May 31, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office will join with law enforcement officers nationwide to take part in the annual Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization.

"The goal of the Click It or Ticket mobilization is not to write more tickets, but to get everyone buckled up - especially teen drivers and their passengers - and to save lives," the sheriff's office said in a press release. Teens are among those drivers and passengers least likely to buckle up, and motor vehicle crashes are the number one killer of teens.

The sheriff's office said wearing seat belts:

• Reduces the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passenger car occupants by 45% and by 60% in pickup trucks, SUV's and minivans.
• Increases the odds of survival in a rollover crash in a light truck by nearly 80%
• Saves lives 15,147 in 2007 alone, and during the five-year period from 2003 through 2007, seat belts saved a total of 76,936 lives.

Safety check points will be conducted by law enforcement officers at the following locations: Elgin Boulevard, Pinehurst Drive, Sealawn Drive, Coronado Drive, Landover Boulevard, Linden Drive, Cobblestone Drive, Shoal Line Boulevard, California Street, Star Road, Springlake Highway, Ridge Manor Boulevard, Centralia Road, and Powell Road.

Florida Injury Attorney G. Alan Tripp, Jr., encourages drivers and passengers alike to always wear their seat belt.

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Law enforcement agencies throughout Florida have stepped up their enforcement of seatbelt violations under the Click It or Ticket campaign.

The increased enforcement effort started Monday and runs through May 31.

Under Florida law, it is illegal for anyone:

• To operate a motor vehicle unless restrained by a safety belt


• To operate a motor vehicle unless each passenger and the operator of the vehicle under the age of 18 years is restrained by a safety belt or by a child restraint device

Florida Injury Attorney G. Alan Tripp, Jr., and the injury law team at the TRIPP LAW FIRM encourages drivers and passengers alike to BUCKLE UP for SAFETY, BUCKLE UP!"

www.trippfirm.com

TRIPP LAW FIRM, P.A. – A Personal Injury Law Firm that is Dedicated to Helping Injured People throughout the State of Florida.

CALL FOR A FREE CONSULTATION - 1 (888) 392-LAWS (5297) Prompt and Aggressive Representation, with a personal touch.

NO FEE OR COSTS IF NO RECOVERY.