681 Tickets Written During Jefferson County's Click It Or Ticket Blitz

Click It or Ticket was in full-force in Jefferson County at the end of May.

From May 20 through June 2,  if a driver wasn't wearing a seat belt he or she had a very high chance of getting a ticket.

That's because the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office participated in the Click It or Ticket initiative's enforcement mobilization.

The sheriff's office ticketed 681 motorists, and arrested or detained almost 40, 38 to be exact. Of that number, 226 were ticketed for not wearing seat belts during the Click It or Ticket enforcement mobilization, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Click It or Ticket is a national effort that tries to increase the amount of people wearing seatbelts.

Here are the results from the enforcement period:

Tickets

• 226 Seat belt Tickets
• 7 Child Restraint Tickets
• 190 Speeding Tickets
• 73 Stop Sign Tickets
• 70 Uninsured Tickets
• 115 Various Violation Tickets

Arrested or Detained

• 11 Fugitives
• 1 Driving While Intoxicated
• 12 Suspended or Revoked Licenses
• 11 No Operators License
• 3 Drug Offenses

Warnings

• 108 Speed Warnings
• 28 Stop Sign Warnings
• 57 Misc. Warnings

Currently, Missouri is a secondary seat belt law state, which means a law enforcement officer can only ticket a car passenger for not wearing a seat belt if the officer has the car pulled over for a separate offense and notices the seat belt violation.

In 2012, 394 people killed in traffic crashes were not wearing a safety belt.

When worn correctly, seat belts can reduce the risk of death for front seat occupants of passenger cars by 45 percent, according to the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety.