The Abbotsford Police Department stopped more than 5,000 vehicles during its recent Buckle Your Babies campaign.
Const. Ian MacDonald said approximately 650 car and booster seats were inspected during the two-week campaign, which began April 10, resulting in 65 violation tickets being issued.
MacDonald said, during the six checkpoints set up at various times and locations around the city, police were checking to ensure that kids were in the appropriate car seat for their age/weight and that they were properly buckled in.
He said there were several cases where, although the child was buckled in to the seat, the seat wasn't secured to the car.
In other cases, the bottom of the seat was buckled in, but the top wasn't.
In still other situations, no car seat was used at all.
MacDonald said Buckle Your Babies was held mainly to educate parents about proper car seat use, with fines reserved for the "more egregious" mistakes.
The campaign was precipitated by a 2011 collision in which a three-year-old boy suffered a broken leg. He had been in a car seat at the time, but the seat had not been properly secured in the vehicle.
MacDonald said another Buckle Your Babies campaign in Abbotsford will run in late summer or early fall.