• Click It or Ticket Click It or Ticket Kaua‘i drivers who don’t wear seatbelts are the target of the local section of the annual “Click It or Ticket” statewide crackdown. A flashing State Highways safety sign is announcing the
• Click It or Ticket
Click It or Ticket
Kaua‘i drivers who don’t wear seatbelts are the target of the local section of the annual “Click It or Ticket” statewide crackdown. A flashing State Highways safety sign is announcing the program along Kuhio Highway.
In doing their part, the Kaua‘i Police Department is set to target drivers who don’t wear seatbelts with special patrols and on-road inspections. Watch for the patrols along main highways and county roads beginning early next week.
The program does work in making all drivers more aware of the safety of wearing seatbelts, and it especially makes parents of young children aware of the dangers of not properly using child safety seats.
Citing seat belt law violators is quite a bit easier than stopping a speeder or sidelining a drunk driver. This ease of catching violators, and the high visibility when patrols are stopping drivers help make “Click It or Ticket” a functional program that police departments across the state get behind.
Similar programs are needed for speeding, as well as targeting and arresting drunk drivers. While the KPD does attempt curtail speeders and drunks on the road, a formal program with as much visibility as “Click It or Ticket” would add greatly to the day-to-day work in these areas. If the Honolulu Police Department and departments from other the other Neighbor Island counties joined in it could mean a down turn in the raising number of fatal highway accidents in our state and on Kaua‘i.
