‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign to include area roads

Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies will be patrolling county roadways from now and May 31 enforcing Ohio’s seat belt laws as part of the national mobilization of the Click It or Ticket campaign.

According to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, seat belts saved an estimated 12,584 lives in 2013 and child restraints saved the lives of an estimated 263 children under the age of 4. NHTSA estimates that an additional 2,800 lives would have been saved if drivers and occupants would have utilized seat belts and child restraint systems.

Deputies will be issuing citations for failure to wear seat belts and for failing to properly restrain children.

Children must be restrained utilizing the appropriate device for their age and weight.