TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Department of Transportation plans to announce how many Kansans are buckling up.
The department announced Friday that it will announce the observed rate of seat belt use in the state at a press conference Monday.
Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent Mark Bruce and Norraine Wingfield of the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office will make the announcement at 2 p.m.
The state has targeted a seat belt usage rate of 84 percent for 2014 and 86 percent for 2015 as a part of its highway safety plan. In 2008, just 72 percent of Kansans were observed to be regularly wearing their seat belts.
The state had 405 traffic fatalities in 2012, and set a goal of dropping that number to 390 in 2014.
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