{"id":311547,"date":"2026-05-27T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:21:08","slug":"texas-officials-promote-seat-belt-safety-campaign-through-end-of-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311547\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas officials promote seat belt safety campaign through end of month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; The Texas Department of Transportation, along with city leaders and partner agencies, promoted seat belt safety through demonstrations, personal testimonies and education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The campaign runs through the end of the month. Officials said the message goes beyond enforcement, reminding Texans that a seat belt can be the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TxDOT pointed to hundreds of deaths each year that could have been prevented by buckling up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201c965 lives were lost in Texas roads, that\u2019s a state stat, because people were not wearing their seat belts,\u201d Blanca Trevino-Castro said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials stressed that buckling up is required by law for every rider, day and night. Children must be in a car seat depending on their age, weight and height.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A seat belt violation can result in fines of up to $200. Drivers can also face fines of up to $250 plus court costs if children are not properly secured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more headlines, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/news\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KGNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; The Texas Department of Transportation, along with city leaders and partner agencies, promoted seat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112295,112298,2441,1136,163,18834,4850,7685,7686,48,3664,14273,112299,112297,59042,112296,27,29,28,271,2932],"class_list":["post-311547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-buckling-up","tag-car-seat","tag-court","tag-drivers","tag-education","tag-fines","tag-height","tag-kgns","tag-laredo","tag-law","tag-month","tag-officials","tag-personal-testimonies","tag-rider","tag-seat-belt","tag-secured","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-txdot","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}