Wearing a seat belt – the most effective safety step

Seat belts are the most effective automobile safety device for preventing death or injury.  Wearing a seat belt can reduce the risk of accident injuries by more than 50 percent.

Seat belt use has increased and averages about 84 percent nationally.  Though, there are high risk groups that are less likely to routinely wear their seat belt.  Statistics show these groups are: teens, commercial drivers, males in rural areas, pick-up truck drivers, people driving at night, and people who have been drinking. 

According to the National Highway Safety Administration seat belts saved more than 75,000 lives from 2004 to 2008 and 42% of the passengers were killed in 2007 were not wearing their seat belt.

 

 
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