{"id":18180,"date":"2013-05-06T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18180"},"modified":"2013-05-06T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:25:17","slug":"seat-belt-enforcement-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18180","title":{"rendered":"Seat Belt Enforcement Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Valley City. ND (KCSi-T.V. News)\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 To increase seat belt use, law enforcement agencies throughout the state will be conducting overtime enforcement of seat belt laws during a statewide\u00a0<em>Click It or Ticket<\/em>\u00a0campaign, which will run Monday, May 20, through Sunday, June 2, 2013.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The campaign is funded through the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT).<\/p>\n<p>After months of contending with wintery weather, things are starting to warm up in North Dakota.\u00a0\u00a0Between the lake and little league, camping weekends and cross-country treks, North Dakotans spend a lot of time behind the wheel in the spring and summer months, and\u00a0\u00a0law enforcement are hoping to get motorists to warm up to a simple idea: buckle your seat belt each and every time you get in a vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Cambria;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe increased enforcement period isn\u2019t about issuing tickets,\u201d\u00a0says Mark Nelson, NDDOT Safety Director.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s about reminding motorists that buckling up is the most effective way to protect yourself in a crash.\u00a0 It\u2019s about saving lives.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Last year,\u00a065\u00a0percent of traffic fatalities in North Dakota were unbelted.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhether you\u2019re heading out on a cross-country road trip or just up the road,\u201d added Nelson, \u201cbuckling your seat belt is the easiest way to protect the lives of yourself and your passengers in the event of a crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other safe driving initiatives, please visit the North Dakota Department of Transportation\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.nd.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.dot.nd.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City. ND (KCSi-T.V. News)\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 To increase seat belt use, law enforcement agencies throughout the state will be conducting overtime enforcement of seat belt laws during a statewide\u00a0Click It or Ticket\u00a0campaign, which will run Monday, May 20, through Sunday, June 2, 2013.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The campaign is funded through the North Dakota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18182,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions\/18182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}