Click It or Ticket

By Police Chief Rick DeBruin

Nearly one in four Missourians still fail to regularly wear their safety belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle.
Among those least likely to buckle up: young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people who live in rural areas, and nighttime drivers.
Adrian Police Department announced that November 18th, we will joining with all law enforcement for an aggressive “Click It or Ticket” mobilization to crack down on Missouri’s safety belt law violators and to reduce highway fatalities.
Failure to wear safety belt can be deadly. In 2007, a driver in a Missouri traffic crash has a 1 in 32 chance of being killed if they were not wearing a seat belt. In cases where the driver wore a seat belt, their chance of being killed was 1 in 1294.
Chief DeBruin said regular belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes.