 Law enforcement personnel from Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia joined Kentucky Office of Highway Safety officials today to share the importance of wearing seat belts. In 2016, 61 percent of those who died in a vehicle collision were not wearing seat belts. We'll be out enforcing seat belt laws heavily starting sometime the next month or so. With Memorial Day weekend coming up, many will be out traveling for vacation or visiting family and friends. The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is reminding travelers that law enforcement will be out in force during the weekend. Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia are working together to keep those in our region safe. In the city of Williamson, we've noticed through previous campaigns and surveys that we've done we have a high volume of people not wearing their seat belt. We also have minor children that are not buckled up in seat belts or in safety booster seats, so we want to encourage those also because that one crash could cost you your life. The Pikeville Police Department understands the importance of seat belt usage. They say too many go day to day without wearing one. The Public City Police Department alone worked 3,786 traffic collisions from the year 2012 to 2016, and of those 3,786, there was 3,781 seat belt violations issued by police officers with the Bible Police Department, so that equals out almost one seat belt violation for every collision that we've worked. The National Click It or Ticket campaign runs from May 22 to June 4. Reporting in Pikeville, I'm Shelby Steele for EKB News.