Click It or Ticket, May 19–June 1, 2008

"Click It or Ticket" is a successful nationwide seat belt enforcement campaign. Each year, during the summer season—a busy traveling time for people across the United States—state and local law enforcement team up with highway safety officials to focus on getting drivers and passengers to buckle up, day and night, on every trip.

Reduce Your Risk

By buckling up, you're not only reducing your chances of being stopped and ticketed. You're also increasing your chances of staying alive in a crash.

Consider that:

• Just by buckling their seat belts, drivers and passengers can reduce their risk of dying in a crash by more than half.

• In 2006, 32,092 occupants of passenger vehicles (excluding motorcyclists) were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

• More than 15,000 of those killed were not wearing a seat belt or secured in a car seat of booster seat at the time of the fatal crashes.

Protect Your Passengers

If you're on the road with children, make sure they are buckled into appropriate safety seats. The safest place for children of any age is to ride is properly restrained in the back seat. Data show that:

• In 2006, child-restraints saved the lives of 425 children ages 4 and younger.

• Child safety seats reduce the risk of death in car crashes by 71% for infants and 54% for toddlers ages one to four.

• For children ages 4 to 7, booster seats reduce injury risk by 59% compared to safety belts alone.

• Unbuckled children and adults can be seriously injured or killed by sitting too close to an airbag.

• Infants in rear-facing car seats should never ride in the front seat of vehicles with airbags.

CDC's online fact sheet can help you learn more about child passenger safety.

For More Information

• Child Passenger Safety: Fact Sheet
• Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety, The Task Force on Community Preventive Services and the Community Guide
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control