The Susanville Police Department reminds everyone taking a trip to visit friends or family this summer to always buckle up and keep children in child safety seats.
This year’s Click It or Ticket campaign runs through June 4th. During this time, the Susanville Police Department will have additional officers on patrol actively looking for drivers and passengers who are not wearing a seat belt. This includes vehicles where children are not secured in child safety seats.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 12,000 people killed in crashes throughout the country in 2021 were not wearing seat belts. In California, 756 people killed in crashes in 2020 were not wearing seat belts, or 20 percent of all traffic deaths statewide.
California law requires a child to be secured in a safety or booster seat until they are at least 8 years old or at least four feet, nine inches tall. Children under the age of two must ride in a rear-facing seat unless the child weighs forty or more pounds or is forty or more inches tall.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
