COM 0010.024 2006-2008 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

~ , k~ , ~ ~ . 'Click It or T'icket' is coming Police are advising According to the last residents that the annual survey, Hawaii County's "Click It or Ticket" cam- seat belt usage rate was paign has begun. 94-2 percent, slightly low- Sgt. Dexter Veriato says er than the statewide aver- roving patrols and seat belt age. The survey also found enforcement checkpoints that passenger and toddler will be set up around the restraint was significantly Big Island from May 21 to lower on the Big Island. June 3. T)?e effort is part Police will enforce child of a national and statewide passenger restraint laws campaign urging awareness and will ticket drivers if and the use of seat belts. children under the age of 4 Although this campaign are not properly restrained runs just two weeks, "seat in a child safety seat or in belt and child restraint a booster seat until age 7. citations aze issued yeaz Unrestrained drivers and round," Veria[o said. Last front seat passengers will year police issued 4,099 be cited as well. seat belt citations and 257 Hawaii's seat belt law child restraint citations. requires those riding in In 2006, there were 39 the front seat to use their people died in 33 crashes seat belts and those 17 and on the Big Island. Thirteen under to weaz their seat of those victims were not belts in the back seat also. restrained. "The survival The fine for not wearing rate of wearing your seat a seat belt is $92. Child belt in a crash like that is restraint and booster seat almost 50 percent," Veri- violators must go to court ato noted. "At least half and face a fine between of those lives could have $100 and $500, and must been saved. We need the also attend a four-hour public's help" class.