[Vision2020] Click It, Don't Risk It! November 2006

[Jennifer McFarland]

Latah County Sheriff's Office and Lewiston Police Department

 

Joint Media Release

 

To: All Media Outlets

From: Det. Jennifer McFarland

            Public Information Officer

            Sgt. Ted Piche'

            Lewiston Police Department

Date: November 9, 2006

RE: Click It, Don't Risk It! Campaign

 

The Latah County Sheriff's Office and the Lewiston Police Department are
joining with other Idaho law enforcement agencies November 13 through the
26th in the Click It, Don't Risk It! seatbelt campaign.  Both departments
will be out in force makings sure that drivers are buckled up.  We're giving
warnings now; we'll be giving tickets November 13-26.

 

Twenty percent of Idahoans fail to fasten their seatbelts and account for 60
percent of the people killed in traffic crashes costing the state and
taxpayers $575 million a year.  "That's money that could have been saved by
a quick click of a seat belt," said Sergeant Ted Piche' of the Lewiston
Police Department.  Sgt. Piche' was "saved by the belt" when he was involved
in a crash while on-duty in 2001.

 

"If education doesn't get people to buckle up, maybe a ticket will serve as
a gentle reminder," according to Sergeant Phil Gray of the Latah County
Sheriff's Office.  Idaho's seatbelt law requires everyone in a vehicle to be
properly restrained no matter where they are seated.  Fines for breaking
Idaho's safety restraint laws range from $10 to $69, "and those tickets will
be issued," said Sgt. Gray.  

 

The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) and Idaho law enforcement agencies
statewide are reminding people that buckling up is the best defense against
serious injury or death for drivers and their passengers.  During this
two-week campaign drivers won't be warned, they'll be ticketed and fined.
To avoid your ticket Click It, Don't Risk It!

 

For more information about the Click It, Don't Risk It! campaign, contact
Det. Jennifer McFarland at LCSO (208-892-5664) or Sgt. Ted Piche' at LPD
(208-746-0171).

 

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Det. Jennifer L. McFarland
Latah County Sheriff's Office
Public Information Officer
PO Box 8068
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-2216
Fax (208) 883-2281
 <http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm>
http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
***Ralph Waldo Emerson

   

 

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