If you're on the road this holiday weekend, don't be too surprised if a police officer pulls you over for failing to do something that could save your life. Officers from 5,000 law enforcement agencies are out on the nation's highways over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, looking for motorists who aren't wearing their seatbelts. It's part of a program called Operation ABC, which was started on Memorial Day weekend.
Every state has a law requiring children to be buckled up or in a child safety seat.
But the U.S. Department of Transportation says half of the children killed in car crashes each year were not restrained at all. We know that highly publicized enforcement works. That's a start. But Michigan State Trooper Corie Hebner said he still meets with mixed responses to his warnings about buckling up. Operation ABC organizers say the most important challenge is to convince motorists to properly restrain their children.