Colleagues:

This is just a reminder to you to please wear your seat belt when driving. Once again, CCBC Catonsville is participating in the "Click It Or Ticket" campaign, a statewide campaign that promotes seat belt safety. A series of on-campus activities as well as a seat belt safety survey are scheduled throughout the summer.

The "Click It Or Ticket" promotion is part of the "Maryland Chiefs' Challenge" Seat Belt Use Campaign, done in conjunction with the Maryland Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration (NHTSA), the Maryland Committee for Safety Belt Use and the Maryland Police Chiefs Association.

In addition to monitoring seat belt usage during the summer, car seat demonstrations will be held and literature distributed to seat belt users. Public Service Announcements featuring CCBC Public Safety officers stressing the importance of seat belt usage have been airing on local radio and television stations.

The national campaign is designed to get teens and young adults buckled up. This nationwide seat belt enforcement push places special emphasis on protecting teens and young adults because new data shows that more than half of all young adults who die in crashes are completely unrestrained. According to new data from NHTSA's Fatal Analysis Reporting System, 5,548 teens died and another 73,000 were injured in traffic crashes in 2000. Of those 5,548 teens that died, nearly half would have survived had they just buckled up.

For information on "Click It Or Ticket" events, call 410-455-4455.

Thank You,

Alicia Harvey-Smith, Ph.D.
Dean of Learning & Student Development