May is Click It or Ticket Month

PRINCETON, WV (WVNS) — Wearing a seatbelt could mean the difference between life or death.

That is why every May, the Highway Traffic Safety Administration holds its “Click It or Ticket” campaign.

In West Virginia, drivers and passengers must be wearing a seatbelt or they will get a ticket.
Not wearing a seatbelt is a primary offense in the Mountain State, which means you can be pulled over just for not wearing one.

But the ticket is actually the least of your worries.

Lieutenant Adam Ballard with the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department said the real worry is getting into an accident while not wearing a seatbelt.

“Out of those that we have death that result from those crashes, we have about half of those, maybe just a little bit less were individuals that haven’t worn their seatbelt,” said Ballard.

Ballard said wearing the seatbelt wouldn’t have kept them from being injured, but it very well may have prevented their deaths.

The Click It or Ticket campaign will run throughout the month of May.

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