The use of car safety belts reached a new high
A record number of Americans umreiften belt this year, the Department of Transportation said today.
The number of 1993, 66 per cent, compared to over 62 per cent in 1992 and 59 per cent during the year 1991, the first year of the investigation was in its current form.
Proponents of the belt due to the increase tougher laws in some States regarding the use of security restrictions.
Transport F. General Secretary Federico Pena, said the elevation of 500 lives saved and more than 14000 to avoid serious injuries and more than $ 1 billion in health and other costs during the year 1993. Mr. Pena said his goal was 75 percent of drivers and passengers to use seatbelts in 1997.
Brian O’Neill, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said North Carolina was 80 per cent due to a four-week campaign to random checks. “The thing that makes the difference is the law and the extent to which the law is applied,” said O’Neill.
He said, part of the national result of increased upgrade in California’s seat belt law allows, that the police authorities to arrest a motorist non-compliance with the mere wear a seat belt.
Only nine other states have laws: Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Texas.
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