In King County, law enforcement from the Auburn, Bellevue, Black Diamond, Burien, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Maple Valley, Redmond, Renton, SeaTac and Shoreline police departments and the Washington State Patrol will be conducting extra seat-belt patrols during the nighttime hours through June 6.

Washington has one of the highest seat-belt-use rates in the United States and has had since the Click it or Ticket Project began in 2002. The latest daytime observational survey showed seat belt use at 96.4 percent. The Click it or Ticket Project and the primary enforcement seat-belt law resulted in a 21 percent drop in vehicle occupant deaths, from an average of 518 from 1995 to 2002, to an average of 410 from 2003 to 2009. During those same time periods, serious injuries from traffic crashes dropped 25 percent.