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Photo: City traffic enforcement effort

By Howard B. Owens

Batavia Police are running a special detail today targeting drivers without seat belts or talking on mobile phones.

Officers also ran the detail yesterday afternoon.

Officer Darryle Streeter said he's seeing about 95- to 98-percent compliance with the seat belt law.

Mobile phones are another matter. Of the 18 tickets written yesterday, only one was for a seat belt violation and 10 were for mobile phone use (the rest were for miscellaneous issues such as inspection or tinted glass).

At the time this picture was taken, the detail was being run on Ellicott Street.

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