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Bossier Police Participate in "Buckle Up In Your Truck" Campaign

BUCKLE UP IN TRUCK:  The Bossier City Police Department is partnering with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission this month in an enforcement campaign aimed at saving the lives of pickup truck drivers and their passengers.  The campaign: Buckle Up In Your Truck   runs through– April 26th.  Mark Natale, with Bossier City Police.  "This focuses on the importance of buckling up in pickup trucks. A lot of times folks get a sense of false security riding in these bigger vehicles and as a result they fail to buckle themselves in.  This is strictly a campaign to promote awareness for seatbelt use particularly in pickup trucks. By getting the word out, hopefully we're saving lives. "

Credit Courtesy: Bossier Police Dept.
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Courtesy: Bossier Police Dept.

While everybody knows it's the law to wear a seatbelt in any vehicle, there's data to support that there's a higher incidence of death or injury due to people not wearing seatbelts in pickup trucks when they are involved in an accident.  Natale explains, " About 25% of the vehicles on the roads today are pickups and many of the fatalities that we see and are seen nationally, involve wrecks that are 'roll-overs' and the individuals inside as a result of not being buckled up, were thrown from the vehicle and sustained death or real serious injury."

Buckle Up In Your Truck campaign  is sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission.  And fair warning…citations will be issued for not wearing seat-belts.

Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.