State’s aggressive seat belt ticket campaign coming to Augusta

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Click It or Ticket” campaign will run from Nov. 22-30 as many families will start their holiday travel the weekend prior to Thanksgiving.

Beginning Monday, the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety is launching a separate initiative with local law enforcement agencies to enforce the state’s seat belt and child passenger safety laws prior to the start of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday travel periods.

The state “Click It or Ticket” safety bus will stop in Augusta on Wednesday to support Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic units.

The 2024 Georgia front seat day-time seat belt survey found only 88% of motorists in the state were wearing seat belts.

Preliminary state crash data showed 70% of the people killed in passenger vehicle crashes in Georgia during the 2024 78-hour Thanksgiving holiday travel period were not wearing seat belts.

According to federal data, 60% of the people killed in traffic crashes during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend over a five-year period (2019-2023) were not wearing a seat belt.

Federal crash data also showed two out of every three people killed in pickup truck crashes in Georgia from 2019-2023 were not wearing a seat belt even though wearing a seat belt in the front seat of a pickup reduces the risk of a fatal injury in a crash by 60%.

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