{"id":236101,"date":"2026-05-18T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:49:16","slug":"stepped-up-vermont-new-york-police-patrols-target-unbuckled-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236101\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepped up Vermont, New York police patrols target unbuckled drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Law enforcement agencies in Vermont and New York are increasing patrols as part of an annual campaign to check whether drivers are wearing seat belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The enforcement effort coincides with Memorial Day weekend and urges drivers to stay buckled up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Vermont, state data shows the seat belt use rate was 87.5%, which is below the national average. Around 40% of people who died in Vermont crashes were not buckled up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe message really is more about education and reminding people to wear their seat belts. It\u2019s not necessarily a numbers game as far as seat belt tickets go,\u201d said Kevin Lane of the Vermont State Highway Safety Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Vermont, seat belt violations are considered a secondary offense, meaning drivers cannot be pulled over solely for not wearing one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the push is about keeping people safe on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Law enforcement agencies in Vermont and New York are increasing patrols as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92392,92393,11454,17713,93,9,11,10,12,17712,1635,104,21888,1986,18053,5660,1634,1235,1631,1068],"class_list":["post-236101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-belts","tag-buckle","tag-campaign","tag-country","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-police","tag-public","tag-safety","tag-seat","tag-up","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}