Lehigh Township’s Regional Police Traffic Safety Program will be participating in the Occupant Protection traffic enforcement campaign (also known as Click It or Ticket) through June 6. The police will be concentrating enforcement around the Memorial Day weekend, not only for seat belt violations, but also impaired driving-related activities and underage drinking.

Vehicle crashes are one of the leading causes of death, with most of those fatalities being attributed to motorists not wearing a seat belt. Currently, the commonwealth’s seat belt usage rate is 88.9 percent.

Throughout this safety campaign, officers will be specifically concentrating on drivers who operate a motor vehicle while unbuckled and do not have a proper child restraint system for children who are passengers in the vehicle.

Officers will also be conducting checkpoints, roving patrols and “cops in shops” details in an effort to reduce the number of crashes and fatalities on area roadways.

Motorists are reminded of Pennsylvania’s “Move Over Law,” which requires motorists approaching an emergency response area and are unable to safely merge into a lane farther away from the response area to “pass the emergency response area at a speed of no more than 20 mph less than the posted speed limit and reasonable for safely passing.” Fines for offending motorists range from $500 to $2,000.

Lehigh Township’s Regional Police Traffic Program consists of the following departments, located within Northampton County:

• Colonial Regional Police

• Lehigh Township Police

• Moore Township Police

• North Catasauqua Police

• Northampton Borough Police

• Bangor Borough Police

• Bushkill Township Police

• Nazareth Borough Police

• Slate Belt Regional Police

• Stockertown Borough Police

• Tatamy Borough Police

• Upper Nazareth Township Police

• Walnutport Borough Police

• Washington Township Police