A seat belt enforcement campaign is going on this week through March 6 around high schools in Kansas.
The Kansas Highway Patrol will be patrolling areas around high schools in an effort to increase compliance with the seat belt law, according to an announcement.
According to a spokesman for the highway patrol, Kansas lost 34 teens, ages 13 to 19, in 2014 in traffic crashes. Sixty-three percent of the victims were not properly restrained by seat belts, according to the highway patrol.
The host of the seat belt campaign is the Kansas Department of Transportation’s traffic safety section, and it is being held in conjunction with Kansas’ Seatbelts are Safe for Everyone (S.A.F.E.) program.