The Peachtree City Police Department is urging residents to use their seat belts, and police will be issuing tickets to violators of the state’s seat belt laws.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 59 percent of people killed in night-time wrecks in 2005 were not wearing their seat belts.
In May 2005, each victim killed in a fatal wreck on Memorial Day had not worn their safety belt, according to the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.
“So every time Georgia law enforcement officers write safety belt citations during the upcoming Click It Or Ticket campaign, they’ll be thinking about the horrendous highway deaths here in May 2005 that might have had happier endings,” said GOHS Director Bob Dallas.
In May Georgia started the 100 Days of Summer HEAT campaign to enforce DUI and speed laws during the major summer travel period between Memorial Day and the Labor Day holidays.
