Seat-belts Save Lives

To many, seatbelts are just something strapped on to you for no reason but to annoy people and are in the way of things, others also claim that they shouldn't exist, and then there are some that think idealistically. Whoever thinks that seat belts have a point and could save your life one day have caught the right idea. Seatbelts have been known to save lives and without them, they’ve been known to take lives.

Wearing your seatbelt doubles your chances of surviving a serious crash, not wearing a seatbelt on the other hand, increases your chances of death during a serious crash. Many people do not take the time to buckle up and that decision is extremely risky and incautious. Wearing a seatbelt is a life or death decision. Passengers not wearing seat belts in the car can kill and seriously injure others in the car if, for example, the driver has to break suddenly. Not only will not wearing a seatbelt put you at risk, it will also put your passengers and loved ones at risk as well.

During 2008-2012 on average, 36% of all drivers and passengers killed and 9% of vehicle occupants seriously injured are not wearing seatbelts at the time, some of these people are children. 40 child passengers aged 0-16 are killed seriously or injured while 1/3 of these children are aged 0-7 years old. That was only in Australia. In 2009, crashes killed over 33,000 people and injured 2.2 million others in America. More than half of those people killed in the crashes in 2009 were not wearing any seat belt or restraints at the time. Wearing a seatbelt is the most effective way to prevent an injury or even death while in a vehicle. Seat Belts reduce the risk of death by 45% and cut the risk of injury by 50%. Seat Belts have saved an estimated 255,000 lives since 1975 and if we all used seat belts every day, dozens of thousands of lives could be saved from death, including you.