More than 18% of Virginians still don’t wear their seat belt, according to the state’s most recent seat belt survey. We encourage drivers to limit distractions, obey the speed limit, and make sure they buckle up everyone in the vehicle before they set out on that Great American Road Trip.” ![]() “The roads of Virginia will be very busy this weekend with holiday travelers, and that means there’s a greater potential for crashes,” says Morgan Dean, AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesperson. Here in the Commonwealth, 1.16 million Virginians will be traveling, with more than one million of them predicted to be hitting the roads. Nearly 90% of all travelers, or about 37 million people, will be on the roads. That’s just 1% shy of the holiday travel numbers from the pre-pandemic days of 2019. ![]() ![]() Today, DMV partnered with the Virginia State Police, Henrico County Police Department and AAA Mid-Atlantic to start off the Click It or Ticket campaign with a news conference.ĪAA is predicting more than 42 million people will be traveling nationwide for the long Memorial Day weekend. This annual campaign takes place during the Memorial Day holiday, one of the year’s busiest and deadliest travel weekends. RICHMOND – The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and AAA Mid-Atlantic joins Virginia’s first responders, local law enforcement and Virginia State Police to focus on saving lives through increased seat belt use by participating in the national Click It or Ticket campaign through June 4, 2023.
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