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NHTSA Region 6 materials are now available for Click It or Ticket 2012 as well as the Buckle Up in Your Truck campaign. We hope you will find the following material helpful in your efforts to address the role of seat belts in motor vehicle crashes. Year after year, seat belt use prevents thousands of fatalities, and with your help even more can be saved. Through increased high-visibility seat belt enforcement, awareness activities, and earned media, you can help prevent tragic and untimely deaths of motorists in your area.
News Update
In 2010, 32,885 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the U.S., the lowest number of fatalities since 1949. And although this is welcome news, the fact is far too many people die in over 5 million crashes every year in this country. This is still cause for concern — and for action.
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States. What can you do to help?
Get involved. Start talking about traffic safety. Many people — particularly among minority populations — never hear safety messages through conventional channels about how to protect themselves and their family members on the road. Many of those may sit in your local churches each Sunday, and then drive home completely unaware of the risks. So what can you do about it? It’s simple. Help them get the message.
Churches are an effective way to get the message to those who are not always impacted by outreach to the general population. Marketing traffic safety faithbased materials can make a real difference in your efforts to reach out to your state’s diverse populations.
To become a voice for traffic safety, share the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Region 6 Clergy Kit for January through March with your congregation and community.
The quarterly clergy kits are available for free download for African-American, Hispanic, and all-culture congregations with traffic safety reminders that are easily incorporated into church bulletins, Sunday school classes and announcements that are read during services. Included are sermon notes, bulletin announcements, and weekly reminders, plus a Sunday school activity designed to reach children with age-appropriate messages. Some materials are available in Spanish.
In this quarter, the messages emphasize distracted driving, seat belts, child passenger safety, alcohol-impaired driving, and teen driving issues.
We appreciate your continued support in spreading traffic safety messages in your community, helping educate all drivers and passengers to make safe, responsible, and informed decisions as they navigate through our streets and highways.
News Update
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over PSA materials
Audio public service announcements (PSAs) for Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over are now available for use during annual impaired driving enforcement crackdown periods. Thank you for your support of this campaign — together we can prevent tragedies and help make the streets and highways safer across the United States.
Audio versions of the PSA are available for download.
News Update
Rusty Wallace Encourages Commercial Drivers to Buckle Up
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released a new public service announcement (PSA) for television and radio for the Be Ready. Be Buckled. campaign, featuring NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace, to combat low safety belt use among the nation's Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) drivers.
As a recognizable icon in the racing industry, Wallace has lent his distinction to the DOT to encourage the use of safety belts by commercial motor vehicle drivers. In the message, Wallace tells drivers that “Safety is a professional driver’s responsibility.”
The 2006 CMV driver safety belt usage study found that only 59 percent of CMV drivers wear safety belts compared to 81 percent of passenger vehicle drivers. In accordance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR), a CMV which has a seat belt assembly installed at the driver's seat shall not be driven unless the driver has properly restrained himself/herself with the seat belt assembly.
Through initiatives like Be Ready. Be Buckled., and with the help of
supporters like Wallace, drivers will hear the important message: “When
you drive for a living, you buckle up every time.” For more information
regarding FMCSA and the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Belt Program
visit
www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safetybelt
or contact Melissa Mazzella DeLaney at
(202) 366-2309.
All Print, Video, Audio versions of
the PSA are available for download.