Buckle Up to save your own life: Click it or Ticket

In the time it takes to read this sentence, Texans can click their seat belt and save themselves from an early grave — and save their loved ones from the sorrow of preventable loss.

While millions wear their seat belts every day as drivers or passengers, unbuckled drivers and passengers accounted for 1,183 — that’s 28% — of the more than 4,200 lives lost on Texas roads last year. If you take away pedestrian, bicycle and motorcycle fatalities, in which a seat belt couldn’t be worn, nearly half of all fatalities in Texas were from people not wearing a seat belt.

In the Atlanta District in 2023, motor vehicle traffic crashes with unrestrained occupants resulted in the deaths of 22 people and the serious injury of 68 others.