Click It or Ticket Campaign: Cure or Cruelty?

It’s easy to feel invincible or think that wearing a seatbelt is not a big deal especially if you know you’re a good and/or careful driver.

But motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of unintended deaths for people aged 15 to 34 in the United States. Majority of these people could have survived had they simply taken two seconds to buckle up their seatbelts.

In response to the senseless deaths of young people and the huge economic losses that could have easily been prevented, a national Click It Or Ticket (CIOT) enforcement mobilization campaign will be kicked off from May 18-31, 2009. This seat belt safety initiative seeks to convince everyone in the community — especially teens — through massive national advertising and promotion, to use a seat belt at every trip and every single time.

The premise of CIOT is fairly easy—if you “click” it (your seat belt) then you won’t get a ticket. U.S Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood in a recent press release said that wearing a seat belt costs nothing and yet it’s the single most effective traffic safety device ever invented. Wearing a seat belt not just saves drivers the hassle of getting a ticket and paying a fine, it will also most likely, save not just their lives but also those of their passengers.

And yes, seat belt use is a proven safety fact. In a recent study released by the U.S. Department of Transportation based on 2007 data, seat belts saved an estimated number of 15,147 lives that year. It further estimated that if the national seat belt use would rise up to 90 percent, 1,652 lives could be saved and 22,372 serious injuries would have been avoided.

More than 10,000 police agencies are expected to be involved in this massive seat belt enforcement campaign. Police will be on the look-out for CIOT violators day and night and will be out on the streets conducting checkpoints. California, in its highly successful CIOT campaign has set up fines that cost up to $132 for adult seat belt violation and $435 for not properly restraining a child under 16. Since then over one million more vehicle occupants have started buckling up in the State.

While there is a generally positive feedback on CIOT, a few people are muttering about the violation of their civil rights because of the Click It or Ticket’s enforcement. In an article at Townhall.com, Professor Walter E. Williams argues that laws that enforce health and safety measures are an attack on liberty and that in a free society, each person owns himself and has the discretion to choose whether or not he wants to put the seat belt on.

So does civil liberty also dictate that you can drink and drive at your own discretion regardless of the harm or injury you could possibly cause? Does liberty mean having the total freedom to act in any way you wish, like say, kill a person or rape someone else because he has the right to make his own choices?

Without laws, there will be anarchy. And Click it or Ticket whether you like it, love it, hate it or whatever, is the law.

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