Mich. Seat Belt Crack Down Results in More than 18,000 Tickets

June 13, 2007

Police across Michigan issued more than 18,000 safety belt citations during a recent two-week crackdown.

Federal safety grants helped pay for the project, which ran May 21 to June 3 in several communities across the state. Preliminary results from the project were announced by the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning.

Officers wrote 13,176 citations in grant-funded safety belt enforcement zones, located in 55 counties. The other tickets came from law enforcement agencies that voluntarily agreed to make safety belt enforcement a priority during the period.

Of the tickets issued, 777 were because children under 4 years old were not properly restrained in a child safety seat.

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Topics Michigan

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  • June 14, 2007 at 9:13 am
    Reverend says:
    Another tax on the populace. The perpetrator and the victim are one and the same and the remedy is money. How many true victims of crime were ignored while this travesty occur... read more
  • June 13, 2007 at 3:04 am
    Pig says:
    Uhh no, 18,000 tickets is what paid for it....idiot. Just another tax.

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