Berwick takes part in Click It or Ticket campaign

The Berwick Police Department is reminding drivers about the lifesaving benefits of wearing a seat belt for the next couple of weeks during the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s national Click It or Ticket visibility enforcement effort.

The seatbelt campaign, which coincides with the Memorial Day holiday, runs from May 22-June 4. The campaign is coordinated and funded by Louisiana Highway Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Berwick police officers will be conducting seat belt check points during this period at undisclosed locations within the city limits of Berwick and also working saturation patrols. Officers will be ticketing those drivers and occupants not wearing their seat belts as well as child restraint violators. While not all crashes are survivable, statistics show that wearing your seat belt is the single most effective thing you can do to increase your chances of surviving a crash and/or limiting the severity of injuries during the event of a crash.

Participating law enforcement agencies will be taking a no-excuse approach to seat belt enforcement, writing citations day and night. In the city Of Berwick, the maximum penalty for a seat belt violation is $76. The first offense is $51, and the second offense is $76.