seatbelt2Jamestown (CSi) The Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign is underway this month.

High visibility enforcement in Dickey, Eddy, Foster, Logan, and Stutsman County Sheriffs’ Departments and Jamestown, Napoleon, Oakes, Ellendale and Valley City will continue through this month.

The NDDOT, male pickup drivers and passengers are the least likely to buckle up in North Dakota. The North Dakota State University Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute observes seat belt use in 27 counties annually for the NDDOT. Their recent survey found that one of three male pickup passengers in the state are unbelted.

Karin Mongeon, Safety Division Director at NDDOT says, “Low seat belt use puts light truck occupants at high risk. This type of vehicle is represented in the majority of fatalities resulting from single vehicle rollover crashes.”

In 2015, 46 people died in single vehicle rollover crashes. Nearly 80 percent of those killed were unbelted.