The UWLPD will increase its safety belt enforcement patrols
during the annual Click It or Ticket mobil
The UWLPD is reminding motorists that a change in state law last year allows our officers to stop and ticket unbuckled drivers and passengers even if we did not observe another violation. We hope that our enforcement efforts during Click It or Ticket and throughout the year will motivate people to buckle up so that we can reduce the number of preventable traffic deaths to zero in Wisconsin. But if voluntary compliance fails and people continue to ignore the mandatory safety belt law as well as common sense, we will ticket them.
Law enforcement agencies throughout the state are cracking down on unbelted drivers and passengers, according the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Last year, convictions for failure to fasten safety belts exceeded 100,000 for the first time in state history. Safety belt violations were approximately 12 percent of all traffic convictions in 2009.
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