The Click it or Ticket campaign was adopted as Michigan's enforcement and public information campaign as a result of an upgrade to the safety belt law in March 2000. The campaign focus is increasing awareness of and compliance with Michigan's safety belt and child passenger safety laws. Safety belts save lives!

The reality is that traffic crashes are devastating. We lose the equivalent of a fully loaded 737 airplane each day in this country on our highways due to traffic crashes.

Safety belts can prevent serious injury and even death in a crash. More than 37 percent of those killed in traffic crashes are not buckled up.

The public knows they should buckle up for safety. But despite this awareness, research shows that many are not taking the steps necessary to protect themselves and their children on every ride.

Michigan law requires:

• All front seat passengers to be buckled up
• All passengers under age 16 to be buckled up, in all seating positions
• All children under age 8 to be in an approved child safety seat or booster seat, in all seating positions, unless 4' 9" tall.