OPP Officers will be giving out tickets this fall for not wearing your seatbelt after a 20 percent spike this year in fatal accidents where people weren't wearing seatbelts.
OXFORD COUNTY - The Oxford OPP are reminding everyone to buckle up and keep your safety as a priority on the highway.
Police are alarmed by a 20 percent spike this year in fatal accidents where people weren't wearing seatbelts and the year isn't over yet. Already 42 people have died on OPP patrolled roads that were not wearing a seatbelt, that compares to 35 at this time last year. Last year we had 42 people who were not buckled up in Ontario have died in OPP
With this in mind police are starting a fall seat belt campaign, they are reminding drivers and passengers that being ejected from a vehicle is not the only threat people have to worry about if they are not wearing a seat belt and are involved in a collision.
Over the past five years, the OPP has investigated 233 motor vehicle deaths that were linked to lack of seat belt use. A breakdown of the total revealed that 103 of unbuckled vehicle occupants who died in the collisions were ejected from the vehicle while the remaining 130 victims were not ejected but died of injuries they sustained inside the vehicle. Deputy Commissioner Rose DiMarco says this campaign is all about safety.
"The OPP's front-line officers know first-hand from responding to tens of thousands of motor vehicle collisions every year that a driver or passenger's best chance of surviving a crash is by buckling up and benefiting from the proven, science-based protection a seat belt is designed to provide."
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