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Effective immediately, the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office is joining thousands of agencies nationwide in the next wave of operation ABC mobilization: America Buckles up Children - declaring zero tolerance for drivers with unbuckled kids. Throughout the week leading up to Memorial Day, drivers who don’t buckle up children will be stopped and enforcement action will be taken.
“It’s time for zero tolerance because despite laws requiring children to ride buckled up in Virginia and in every state, six out of ten children killed in crashes are unbuckled,” said Sheriff Larry Sherertz. “Many of these deaths could have been prevented it the driver had just seen to it that the child was buckled up.”
More than 2,000 children die in traffic crashes nationwide each year, making it the leading cause of death in chil
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