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<p>HANOVER TWP. &#8212; Township police will be on the lookout to make sure motorists are wearing their seatbelts.</p><p>The Hanover Township Police Department announced Tuesday it joined the national &#8220;Click It or Ticket&#8221; Seatbelt Enforcement initiative from May 15 to June 4.</p><p>Primarily between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. daily, officers will be checking to see if motorists and passengers are buckled up through the use of traffic enforcement zones and roving patrols.</p><p>Citations will be issued to motorists who are caught unbuckled or are transporting unrestrained children, according to a news release.</p><p>Children ages 4 to 8 must be restrained in a proper booster seat, and a law passed in August 2016 requires children under the age of 2 be seated in a rear-facing child passenger restraint system until the child outgrows it.</p><p>The news release indicates that drivers and front-seat passengers 18 years and older are required to buckle up. If motorists are stopped for a traffic violation and are not buckled up, they can receive a second ticket and a second fine.</p><p>Data from PennDOT indicates that there were 13,534 crashes that involved unbuckled individuals, which resulted in 413 fatalities.</p><style>
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Hanover Township police joins national “Click It or Ticket” enforcement