DELAWARE, Oh. – The SAFE Delaware County Coalition along with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and the Delaware Public Health District are joining forces for the Click It or Ticket campaign, which runs now through June 3 surrounding the Memorial Day holiday. The purpose of the campaign is to spread awareness of the importance of wearing a safety belt through education and enforcement for those who drive on Delaware County roadways.
 
This year’s Click It or Ticket campaign kick-off event will take place at 12pm on Friday May 23, 2025 at the Jon Peterson Memorial Plaza next to the Delaware County Courthouse. 
 
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Robert Curry, 42 percent of all fatal crashes in Delaware County, over the last three years, involved an unrestrained occupant.
 
“We cannot overstate the importance of wearing a seat belt,” said Curry.  “By far, buckling up is the simplest thing you can do to limit injury or save your life during a crash. We see the results of not wearing a seat belt all the time. We see the loss of life. So often, it could have been prevented with the simple click of a seat belt.”
 
Curry added that Ohio’s safety belt law remains a secondary violation, however, troopers will continue zero-tolerance enforcement when motorists are stopped for other violations and are found to not be wearing their safety belt.
 
Additional safety belt enforcement and educational information can be found on the Patrol’s Ohio Statistics and Analytics for Traffic Safety (OSTATS) Safety Belt dashboard.