PennDOT, Police, Safety Partners Kick off Border-to-Border Seat-Belt Enforcement

PennDOT, Police, Safety Partners Kick off Border-to-Border Seat-Belt
Enforcement

5/21/2018-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the Delaware River

Port Authority (DRPA), Buckle Up PA, and state and local police from
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, today held a media event at the Walt Whitman
Bridge in Philadelphia, to kick-off the Border-to-Border seat belt
enforcement
campaign as part of the national "Click It or Ticket" campaign through June
3.

"It is critical that all motorists, drivers and passengers, buckle up each
and
every time they get into a vehicle, 24-hours a day, seven days a week,"
says
PennDOT District 6 Executive Kenneth M. McClain. "Wearing a seat belt is
the
single most effective way to avoid being killed in a crash."

As part of the initiative, municipal police departments across southeast
Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State Police will conduct seat belt
enforcement
activities to send a 'zero tolerance' message to motorists: driving or
riding
unbuckled will result in a ticket, no matter what state you travel through.

Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties' municipal police
departments
will focus on roadways with high unbelted crashes, injuries and deaths by
initiating a combination of enforcement and public awareness activities.

Drivers are reminded that if you or a passenger are under 18 years of age,
you
must buckle up, and children under 8 years old must be properly restrained.

Drivers and front-seat passengers over 18 years old who are cited for
another
traffic violation will receive a second ticket if they're unbuckled.

Proper seat belt use can increase your chances of surviving a crash by up
to 60
percent. According to PennDOT 2017 data there were 4,836 unbelted crashes
in
Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, with 79
fatalities in those crashes.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by
visiting
www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides
traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and
access
to more than 860 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and
Android
devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts
accessible
on the 511PA website.

To learn more about PennDOT's impaired driving efforts, visit
www.penndot.gov/safety

For regional Twitter updates follow, www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly.

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