(Sidney, Iowa) – Fremont County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Tim Bothwell reports, that “With milder weather [Deputies] will be doing projects with the Iowa State Patrol with the intent of seatbelt enforcement. During the projects [they] will be enforcing general traffic enforcement and looking for impaired drivers.” Bothwell says ” In the year 23-24 we have had a total of six traffic deaths and six serious injury accidents. Fremont County has had a higher percentage of unbelted traffic deaths per capita, of small counties in Iowa.”

In addition to motorists who are not wearing their seat belts, Deputy Bothwell said “We will also be looking for distracted drivers. Not just texting or on the phones, but other things that distract, like eating and drinking and not paying attention to the road, to animals in drivers laps.”