Click It or Ticket starts Monday

It's a proven fact that vehicle safety belts reduce the risk of serious bodily injury or death in motor vehicle crashes by 50 percent. This year, we hope to improve the overall safety at NAS Jacksonville by getting more people to buckle up during the Click It or TicketCampaign.

Even though we periodically conduct safety belt inspections on base, five to six percent of our personnel are still not wearing seatbelts while operating their vehicles on station. Failure to buckle up by drivers and passengers allows law enforcement officers to conduct a primary traffic stop and issue a traffic citation for the infraction. Florida law requires that all front seat occupants must utilize safety restraints (seatbelts). All children between the ages of 4 and 17 years of age must be secured in a safety vehicle restraint. Children from birth to age 3 must be secured in an approved child restraint seat.

Although NAS Jacksonville Security, enforces the seatbelt law daily, during the Click It or TicketCampaign, patrol officers will man high traffic areas to specifically target people who are not buckled up.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, motor vehicle crashes are the single largest cause of unintentional injury for ages one through 65, accounting for approximately 42,643 injuries annually.