ELLABELL, Ga. (WTOC) - Before the travel for Thanksgiving, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety is working with local law enforcement to ensure everyone is wearing a seat belt to save lives.

Preliminary Georgia state crash data showed that 70% of people killed in vehicle crashes in the state last year, around Thanksgiving Day, were not wearing a seat belt.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics show 60% of people killed in traffic crashes during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend over a five-year period from 2019 to 2023 were not wearing a seat belt.

“If you’ve never had to go knock on a door at 2 o’clock in the morning and tell a family member that one of their family members had just got killed in a crash because somebody was impaired, or because they weren’t weari

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