A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Buckle up rate here better than itis In other places ICBC goal for all to wear one _ WHEN IT comes to wearing - * seatbelts, Terrace is above ' average. ‘With 93. per cent of driv- ers and 90 per cent of pas-: . sengers noted wearing seat- — belts‘at the four-way, stop of Hwys 16 and 37 the day of an ICBC seatbelt audit earli- er this summer, Terrace tied with Burns Lake and Wil- © liams Lake for fourth place. The overall average for both drivers and passengers was 92 per cent. . Quesnel came in first place with 98 per cent seatbelt use for all car occupants and Fort St. \ James came second with 96 per cent. This year’s average of the 20 communities. au- dited in the north. central region for seatbelt com- pliance was 87 per cent... The audit has a plus or ' minus’ five per cent mar- — - gin of error. “This is a remarkable increase in. what we've © - seen,” .said Dave Dick- son, regional manager for ICBC’s Loss Prevention program. Terrace’s average last year was 87 per cent. | “Kudos to the com- _ munity,” “Dickson said. “A majority of the com-. > munity is wearing their seatbelt.” . _. But even at 92 per cent, Dickson said there’s~ still room for improvement. ICBC’s «goal. is “to get the seatbelt-wearing rate to _ 95 per cent by 2010, which has been set as the national -expectation by ‘the federal Transport Canada | depart- ment. - “Ultimately, Dickson said, . the goal is 100 per cent. “We know that seatbelts reduce injuries in car crash- es,” said Dickson. - All four fatalities in the area this year were because the four people didn’t buckle up, he said. And there’s a monetary benefit to wearing seat- — belts as well. More people using seatbelts means the num- ber of injuries in the north will come down, Dickson said, and that will ulti- ‘mately lower insurance rates... Commercial vehicles are a challenge, Dickson ‘said, with only 86 per cent. of drivers wearing seatbelts. “We've had times ‘in the North where if they’d ‘had their: seatbelt on, they’d be alive and with us today,” he said. “I’m going to continue to work until .there’s: no crashes and nobody gets injured.” . , This is the fourth year seatbelt audits have been done in the region, and the results are given to the ‘RCMP so they can gauge the level of enforcement. “We look at it from an education, engineering and * enforcement view,” Dickson said. The two priorities for Terrace’s RCMP. traffic of- ticers this year are seatbelts and drinking and driving, said Constable Gary Swan- son. ferent -campaigns,” Cst. Swanson said, adding that although it is lax around lunch time, most people in: town are good about wear- ing their seatbelts. The police officers will ‘give out a $138 ticket to ' people not wearing seatbelts since it is a zero tolerance offence. “I could think of a lot of things you'd rather spend $138 on,” said Cst. Swan- son. The next provincial traf- ~ fic campaign is for seatbelts, and the RCMP will be out on -the streets throughout Canada October 7-9 to en- force seatbelt compliance. “If you wear it all the time you don’t have anything to | worry about, ” Swanson said. “We've had several dif- . The Kitimat Child Development Centre nen Group Presents: ral 9x Coaster — Riding the ee | Mn without Going crazy . Kitimat and Terrace parents are invited to attend a - FREE WORKSHOP ON GRIEVING AND PERSONAL HEALTH ° for parents of children with special needs. Saturday, September 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Centre 1515 Kingfisher Ave., Kitimat, BC V8C 1S5 Facilitated by CAROLYN MAIN - a parent Lunch provided for all workshop participants - Babysitting free. .TO REGISTER CALL. J. Hildebrandt at 632-7839 or B. Good at 632-2075 ° “Registration must be confirmed by September.16 ICBC OFFICIAL Dave. Dickson checks ‘out seatbelt usage from a’vantage point at the Hwy37 and Hwy16 four-way stop. ‘Local usage of seatbelts exceeds the aver- age but there’s room for improvemen . 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