Click It Or Ticket Campaign At Z.H.S.

ZANESVILLE , Ohio – The Muskingum County Safe Communities Coalition and Zanesville Muskingum County Public Health Department held an assembly Monday afternoon at Zanesville High School.

They promoted the National Click It or Ticket Seat Belt Enforcement Campaign to students at the school. There to speak was Sheriff Matt Lutz, Triple A Traffic Safety Program Manager, Kellie O’Riordan, and Joel Dickinson from Genesis Trauma. Sheriff Lutz spoke on a number of topics including the obvious click it or ticket, but also about distracted, and impaired driving.

Lutz said “they also need to be responsible to buckle up because we’ve got so much data and statistics that show that if you’re buckled up and you stay in that cockpit, the cars are designed to protect you. We have so many fatalities from where people are ejected.”

Sheriff Lutz said driving is a privilege, not a right. He said when you step into a car, you’re getting in, what could be a 3,000 pound weapon, if you are not responsible. Kellie O’Riordan worked in a level one trauma center and she said she has seen the unimaginable, all because of not buckling up.

O’Riordan “I worked in a level one pediatric trauma center and I saw some of the worst things that anybody can imagine. To see parents struggle and families suffer because of one decision, which is buckling up, it’s just preventable and those crashes are preventable. Injuries and death are so preventable. We just need to educate communities on buckling up.

Both Lutz and O’Riordan said buckling up goes such a long way in saving lives. They also said do not get distracted, always buckle up, and never drive impaired.