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The California Highway Patrol along with other law enforcement officers are now planning to keep an extra lookout for distracted drivers this month – the National Distracted Driving Month. Officers will be on the lookout for drivers using mobile phones while driving or drivers who text and drive or even eat and apply makeup while driving on the highway. Enforcement commenced on Monday and will go on till Tuesday, as well as on the 20th and 21st of April – focused enforcement days. The month long education campaigns coupled with the focused enforcement campaigns comes as an effort to target distracted drivers. To kick off this campaign, a media event was hosted where drivers were given certain tasks like eating, texting and applying makeup while driving on a closed circuit course.

The California Highway Patrol or the CHP is cracking down hard on drivers and motorists not wearing their seatbelts when driving. The regular fine for not wearing your seatbelt when driving is $142, but other costs come into the picture, including the court fees, and this can raise your overall fine drastically. The fine is $442 for note restraining a child under 16 properly. Even if the parent is not in the car, the driver will immediately be ticketed. This enforcement effort is also known as the California Occupant Restraint Campaign II and runs till September. This campaign is part of a federally funded enforcement campaign that is trying to reduce the number of injuries and deaths caused due to drivers and motorists not wearing their seatbelts. Apart from this, the CHP is also conducting a community outreach program to help educate drivers about the importance of seatbelts and child restraining. Child safety belts and driver seatbelts are the best protected devices against aggressi...