Click It Or Ticket Campaign This Weekend

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Another Click It or Ticket campaign is underway this Memorial Day weekend to make sure Michigan drivers and their passengers are using their seat belts. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning’s Kendall Wingrove tells WSJM News officers from more than 100 police agencies are putting in overtime through June 2 to make sure people are being safe out on the roads.

“We would love to get a point where we have a holiday weekend and other weeks throughout the year where nobody lost their lives on Michigan highways,” Wingrove said. “That is our dream scenario, that everybody survives so that we have no tragedies, and everybody buckles up and stays safe.”

19 people died in car crashes around Michigan last Memorial Day weekend. Wingrove says police make education just as much of a priority as enforcement when Click It or Ticket is underway. The penalty for not buckling up is a $65 ticket.