TxDOT Tells Texas Teens: Love Your Life, Buckle Up

Posted on February 15, 2012

Teen Click It or Ticket campaign expands this year to encourage teen safety belt usage

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is calling on teens to love their lives and buckle up with the launch of the Teen Click It or Ticket campaign. This year, TxDOT is partnering with more than 700 high schools and community colleges statewide to reach more than 750,000 Texas students with the important message that buckling up can save your life.

Teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers. In Texas, the use of seat belts saved an estimated 1,425 lives in 2010. At the same time, nearly half of the 291 teen drivers and occupants of passenger vehicles, ages 16–20, killed in motor vehicle crashes were not wearing their safety belts at the time of the crash. The Teen Click It or Ticket campaign, in its second year statewide, aims to increase seat belt usage among teenage drivers, age 16–20, across the state.

“A few seconds – that’s all it takes to buckle up. In that same amount of time, you can lose your life in an accident because you weren’t wearing your seat belt,” said Carol T. Rawson, P.E., TxDOT’s traffic operations division director. “TxDOT is Continue Reading …