#Click it or ticket Hawaii

Drunk driving is completely preventable yet claimed 172 lives nationwide from 6 p.m. Friday to 5:59 a.m. Monday during the 2019 Memorial Day weekend, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Additionally, alcohol use is the leading known contributing factor in fatal boating crashes, accounting for nearly a quarter of these deaths, according to a 2019 report on recreational boating by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Maui Police Department issued a total of 1,596 citations during a two-week Click It Or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign that ran from May 23 to June 5, 2016.

Senate Bill 4, relating to Motor Vehicles requires all front seat and back seat occupants to wear a seat belt or child restraint. The law becomes effective immediately.

The Governor is expected to sign Senate Bill 4 into law that will require all occupants of a vehicle to buckle up or be restrained in a child passenger seat while traveling on any public highway in Hawaiʻi.

Hawai’i’s seat belt usage rate jumped to 97.9 percent during the May 2009 “Click It Or Ticket” campaign, the highest rate any state in the nation has ever achieved.  Last year, the seat belt usage rate in Hawai’i was 97.0 percent. Maui County motorists led the state, with 98.4 percent seat belt use, followed by […]