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Wear Your Seatbelt

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Wear Your Seatbelt

Thousands of people, apparently believing themselves


immune to the laws of physics, die each day as a result of
vehicle accidents because they were not wearing seatbelts.
According to the laws of physics, if a vehicle is traveling at
30 miles per hour, its contents and passengers are also
moving at 30 miles per hour. The vehicle's sudden stop at 30
miles per hour can mean the difference of life or death to the
passengers wearing seatbelts.

People are a vehicle's most valuable content and seatbelts


keep people in place. In a crash, unbelted passengers will fly
toward the point of impact, colliding with anything in their
path, like dashboards, windshield or steering wheels with
several pounds of moving force. While it's dangerous to
smash into a dashboard or windshield, it can be deadly to be
"thrown clear." Thrown clear of what? Telephone poles,
trees, or oncoming traffic? Thrown through what? The
windshield or door? Airborne objects maintain momentum as
they sail, without the option of where or how they land. In a
collision, passengers launched from a vehicle are 25 times
more likely to die.

In a vehicle accident, the safest place to be is inside the


vehicle, attached to the vehicle's seat. It's the seatbelt that
keeps passengers in place. In a collision, the one part of the
vehicle that stays reasonable intact, no matter how battered
its outsides might be, is the vehicle's seats.

For high speeds, nighttime driving, and bad weather many


passengers do buckle up, but the fact is that most fatalities
occur in dry, sunny weather, at speeds under 40 miles per
hour and within 25 miles of work or home. Perhaps you are a
safe driver in control of your vehicle, but there are a lot of
other drivers not in control of their vehicles, drivers who've
drunk too much, not had enough sleep, didn't see the light
change. You can't control them. Seatbelts are your best
protection against those drivers. In California, wearing
seatbelts is the law. Buckle up and protect yourself so you
don't become another statistic in the accident and fatality
records.

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