The Lima Allen County Safe Communities and the Lima Police Department are encouraging everyone to “click it” as it could save your life.
A survey was taken Thursday morning as they took note of how many people were wearing their seatbelts as they passed by. It only took an hour to count nearly 700 vehicles that passed by the corner of High and Jackson near the entrance to Lima Senior. It was all to reinforce that seat belts are your easiest defense to avoid injury in the event of a crash.
Sgt. Aaron Rode with the Lima Police Department adds, “I’ve actually been on the crash investigation team for many years and I’ve seen what can happen during traffic collisions. Not wearing your seat belt is easily one of the biggest ways that I see a lot of our major injuries. Just keeping it on will keep you safe.”
Results from the survey showed that 422 people were wearing seat belts and 266 were not.
