Overview of the Buckle Up America Campaign


National Goals

• To increase the national safety belt use rate to 78 percent by the end of 2003.
  
  
• To reduce the number of child occupant (from birth to age 4) fatalities by 25 percent by the end of 2005 (using the 653 fatalities in 1996 as a baseline).

Four-point Plan

• Enact strong legislation.
  
  
• Maintain active, high-visibility law enforcement.
  
  
• Build public-private partnerships.
  
  
• Conduct well-coordinated, effective public education.

This Report

The following report is submitted in response to Executive Order 13043 and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees’ directive to the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to keep the President and the Committees apprised of the activities of the national Buckle Up America campaign. This report highlights the activities of the campaign from January 1, 2002, through December 31, 2002.