To keep the joyous holiday season from becoming a time of tragedy, the law enforcement agencies of Green County have teamed up for the statewide "Booze and Belts" traffic crash prevention effort Dec. 7-15.
Law enforcement officers throughout the state are stringently cracking down on motorists who irresponsibly choose to ignore safety belt and impaired driving laws. Last year in Wisconsin, there were more than 41,000 drunken driving convictions and nearly 70,000 convictions for failure to fasten safety belts. With Wisconsin's new primary enforcement law, officers may stop and ticket drivers and passengers who are not wearing safety belts even if the officers do not observe another violation.
During this mobilization and throughout the year, our goal is to save lives and prevent injuries, not to write more safety belt tickets or make more drunken driving arrests. We hope that people will voluntarily decide to buckle up and drive sober. But if they don't, our intensified enforcement will increase the risks of getting caught. Wisconsin could end the year with the lowest number of traffic fatalities since the 1940s. But we must continue our traffic safety enforcement, like the "Booze and Belts" mobilization, until we attain our ultimate goal of zero preventable traffic deaths in Wisconsin.
- This letter was signed by the Green County Sheriff's Department, Albany Police Department, Belleville Police Department, Brodhead Police Department, Monroe Police Department, Monticello Police Department and New Glarus Police Department
Law enforcement officers throughout the state are stringently cracking down on motorists who irresponsibly choose to ignore safety belt and impaired driving laws. Last year in Wisconsin, there were more than 41,000 drunken driving convictions and nearly 70,000 convictions for failure to fasten safety belts. With Wisconsin's new primary enforcement law, officers may stop and ticket drivers and passengers who are not wearing safety belts even if the officers do not observe another violation.
During this mobilization and throughout the year, our goal is to save lives and prevent injuries, not to write more safety belt tickets or make more drunken driving arrests. We hope that people will voluntarily decide to buckle up and drive sober. But if they don't, our intensified enforcement will increase the risks of getting caught. Wisconsin could end the year with the lowest number of traffic fatalities since the 1940s. But we must continue our traffic safety enforcement, like the "Booze and Belts" mobilization, until we attain our ultimate goal of zero preventable traffic deaths in Wisconsin.
- This letter was signed by the Green County Sheriff's Department, Albany Police Department, Belleville Police Department, Brodhead Police Department, Monroe Police Department, Monticello Police Department and New Glarus Police Department
