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Grayson County has a campaign underway to encourage people to wear their seat belts. “We have a low seatbelt usage in Grayson County and we also have a high fatality rate. We’ve been doing a lot of road checks. We’ve been teaming up with the State Police and our other local agencies by setting up traffic safety checkpoints, making sure people are wearing seatbelts. We’re not necessarily giving tickets, we’re handing out literature to let them know ‘Hey look, these are the stats in Kentucky’. We know that our young people especially aren’t wearing their seatbelts and they’re more likely to be killed in a crash than if they were wearing their seatbelts,” shared Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins. Grayson County is one of the five counties in Kentucky that have the lowest percentage of seatbelt use. “At the end of it, they will do another study to see if this campaign has worked. We actually have people sitting up and around our parkways and different areas in Grayson County documenting who is wearing (their seatbelt) and who’s not. We do a study at the beginning and then we do a study at the end to see if it has worked.” The High Five Campaign began in October 2022 and will continue until October of this year.