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‘Click It or Ticket:’ IDOT urges drivers to buckle up during Memorial Day travel · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Clicket or Ticket, i DOT urges drivers to buckle up
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  during Memorial Day travel. Written by Mathias Werner, this article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett. The Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois State Police,
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  and more than two hundred other law enforcement agencies throughout
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  the state are teaming up to remind the public to
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  buckle up and drive sober over the Memorial Day weekend.
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  The effort coincides with the national cliccket or Ticket campaign
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  running through May twenty sixth. Wearing a seat belt should
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  be second nature for every driver and every passenger. Idott's
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  Bureau Chief of Safety Programs and Engineering, Stefan Sekburham said
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  in a news release, if you choose to not buckle up,
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  the result could be a ticket, or worse, you lose
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  your life in a crash. According to IDOT data, two
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  hundred and fifty two people will not properly restrained were
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  killed in crashes in twenty twenty four. While Illinois has
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  achieved a seat belt usage rate of ninety three percent,
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  according to the release, the remaining seven percent continue to
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  put themselves at unnecessary risk. The clicket or Ticket campaign
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  comes in advance of the one hundred deadliest days of summer,
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  which historically marks an increase in fatalities between Memorial Day
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  and Labor Day. According to IDOT, the increase in traffic
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  and behaviors associated with crashes that come during summer holiday
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  weekends almost always correlate with an increase in fatalities. According
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  to the release, last year's Memorial Day weekend from six
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  pm on Friday May twenty third to eleven fifty nine
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  pm on Monday, May twenty six saw ten crashes resulting
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  in eleven deaths in Illinois. Seat belts Save Lives. Anyone
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  who says differently has not seen the thousands of crashes
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  that ISP troopers see every year. ISP Division of Patrol
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  Colonel Chris Owens said, no matter where you are in
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  the vehicle or how short the distance, buckle up every time.
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  The effort is administered by i DOT with federal funds
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  and coincides with the comprehensive multimedia campaign It's not a game.
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  For more information on the clicket or Ticket Memorial Day campaign,
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  visit www dot buckleopilanoa dot org