 How Wearing Seat Belts Can Help
You Save Money, Time and Your Life
Reprinted from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
If
you wear a seat belt every time you get into a vehicle,
you’re
more likely to:
Get to where you’re going
on time.
Wearing a seat belt isn’t just a good idea, it’s
the law,
and many States are conducting
heightened enforcement of their seat belt laws.
Hold onto your hard-earned cash.
Seat belt tickets can mean hefty
fines and, in some places, points on your license.
Prevent disabling injuries and scarring.
Every 15 seconds, someone is injured in a traffic crash. If
you’re
not buckled up,
you could be thrown through
a window, sent skidding along the pavement or be
crushed under a vehicle in a
crash.
Live.
Someone is killed in a crash every
13 minutes. However, seat belts save over
11,000 lives each year, and they can
help you maintain control of your car in a crash.
So, buckle up on every trip. Every time.
Not convinced by State law?
Consider the laws of physics:
- If you crash or slam on your brakes, your car comes to
a sudden stop. But you will keep moving until you, too, are
stopped—by the windshield, dashboard or pavement.
- Wearing
a seat belt stops your body from being thrown
around inside or outside the car. A seat belt decreases
the chances you’ll get hurt by firmly keeping you in
place.
-
Air bags are designed to be used with seat belts. By themselves,
they are only 12% effective at reducing deaths.
HOW DO YOU WANT TO STOP?
Have Air Bags?
Buckle up anyway.
- In most vehicles, air bags are only in the front and inflate only
in frontal crashes. In rear or side crashes and rollovers, the
seat belt can save you from serious injury or death.
- Air bags inflate rapidly in a crash. If you’re not buckled
up, you could be thrown too close to the air bag and seriously
injured or even killed.
- Air bags are more effective when you’re buckled up and seated
at least 10" away, and when children under 12 are properly
buckled up in the back seat.
Reprinted from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
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