Buckle Up for a Successful Season

Buckle Up for a Successful Season is a community-level traffic safety effort that includes all Ohio State Highway Patrol Posts and nearly every one of the Ohio High School Athletic Association's 833 member high schools.

The program strongly emphasizes the fact that motor vehicle crashes involving Ohio teens are preventable. Far too many fatal and serious injury crashes are occurring on Ohio roadways, and many of these crashes involve inexperienced teen drivers.

The goal of Buckle Up for a Successful Season is to promote a safer highway environment by reminding and encouraging student-athletes, coaches, cheerleaders, band members, and fans to buckle up when going to school, practices, games – everywhere, every time.

Buckle Up for a Successful Season is important because young people are most at risk of not buckling up. In 2006, nearly 66 percent of 16 to 20-year-olds killed in crashes in Ohio were not wearing a safety belt.

Mt. Vernon High School Buckle Up for a Successful Season Kick-Off Event

April Langston Student President of SADD, Caree McAfee Knox County Safe Communities Coordinator, Tpr. Ross, Lt. Rutherford, Sgt. Rine, Lt. McGinty and Chief Christy

Annie Guccione

She was the face and voice of Buckle Up for a Successful Season. Her poignantly emotional speech about the importance of safety belt usage remains one of the most important pieces of the Buckle Up for a Successful Season program.

She embodied the essence of the entire program – students impacting other students to get them to understand the importance of buckling up.

Sadly, Annie Guccione, the 16-year-old junior from Canal Winchester High School who championed the message of Buckle Up for a Successful Season for us all died November 7, 2004.