Bergen
County Police Establish
Key Checkpoint on the First Day of
the ‘Click It or Ticket’
Mobilization
Fort
Lee - Motorists approaching the George
Washington Bridge in Fort Lee this
morning probably had a normal commute,
if they were wearing their seat belts.
For those who were not, it was a different
story. Bergen County Police set up
a seat belt checkpoint from 6:00 a.m.
to 9:00 a.m. at the Route 46 East
ramp leading to I-95 North. Police
were enforcing New Jersey’s
primary seat belt law on the first
day of the national Click
It or Ticket mobilization. The
high visibility seatbelt checkpoint
demonstrated law enforcement’s
zero tolerance toward those violators
who refuse to buckle up.
“Eighty-six
percent of New Jersey motorists use
their seat belts and comply with the
law,” said Division Director
Roberto Rodriguez. “The ‘Click
It or Ticket’ mobilization addresses
the 14 percent who fail to buckle
up. Police would rather write a thousand
tickets than have to knock on one
family’s door with news that
a loved one didn’t survive a
crash because they weren’t wearing
their seat belt.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA)
says seat belt use reduces fatalities
by 45 percent, and reduces the risk
of moderate to critical injury by
50 percent. The Garden State has one
of the highest seat belt use percentages
in the nation, and seeks to make that
number even higher in the quest to
reduce crash-related fatalities and
injuries.
Seat belts offer the best protection
in a crash and, it’s the law
in New Jersey. The ‘Click It
or Ticket’ mobilization will
run through June 4th.
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