Nevada’s Joining Forces multi-county law enforcement program is launching its Click it or Ticket education effort alongside the nationwide effort to encourage motorists to strap on their seat belts.

Between now and Dec. 2, law enforcement officers will fan out across Nevada in search of motorists who are not buckled up.

Nevada statistics show that between 2007 and 2011, nearly a third (64 percent) of fatalities and serious injury crashes involving unbelted occupants occurred at night.

Nationwide, if vehicle occupants ages 5 and older wore their seat belts, some 3,031 lives could have been saved in 2012., according to the NHP.