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Press Release

		PRESS RELEASE Pursuant to Cal Govt. Code Sect 6254(f) San Jose Police Department Press Information Office 201 W. Mission Street, San Jose, CA 95110 Ph (408) 277-5339 Fax (408) 286-0923

San Jose CA. -- Make sure everyone in the family gets home safely this holiday season by buckling your seat belt every trip, day and night. That's the message that the San Jose Police Department is telling drivers as part of the 2009 holiday Click It or Ticket mobilization, November 17 - 30.  Officers will be out in force looking for anyone-driver, passenger or child- not properly restrained.

Given the years of public awareness campaigns, including hundreds of Click it or Ticket highway signs, no warnings will be given out.  The Click It or Ticket campaign relies on heavy enforcement and public education as a means to help save lives on California's roadways.

Currently California has a seat belt usage rate of 95.4 percent, but that still means over 1.5 million people are not buckling up. Properly restrained drivers, passengers and children have a 50 percent better chance of surviving a crash than unbelted occupants. Those ejected from vehicles in crashes or roll-overs are up to 35 times more likely to die than restrained occupants.

"There are no excuses.  Nothing is worth risking the lives of you or your family," said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the California Office of Traffic Safety. "This should be the season of joy and thanksgiving, not tragedy ."