Americans took 10.7 billion trips on public transportation, the highest annual ridership number in 57 years. (Public Transportation 2013) 35 million times each weekday, people board public transportation (Public Transportation 2013). Therefore, public transportation is valuable to many civilians, as well as the company continues to rise. Public transportation, an essential on college campuses that need improvement because buses carry germs, buses lack seat belts and, bus drivers over crowd the vehicles. “On each square centimeter of skin there are about one thousand five hundred bacteria (Minnesota Department of Health).”This means that germs may or may not be seen, in this case individuals should wash hands or sanitize frequently.
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According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seat belts saved more than 13,000 lives nationwide (2010). This number is a large number amount of individuals whose lives have been saved by wearing a seatbelt. 13,000 people is enough people to fill an entire football stadium. For example, a seat belt helped save the life of a seventeen year old boy named Ethan. Ethan Mitchell was involved in a car accident in which caused his vehicle to tumble over. Ethan’s mother found him walking away from this accident with minor injuries because Ethan as well as the other passenger both were wearing their seatbelts. Mrs. Mitchell always taught Ethan the importance of seat belt safety, and Ethan listening to his mother saved his own life. If Ethan did not where his seat belt he could have ejected from the vehicle. Seatbelts are beneficial and individuals need to recognize that. When people do not use a seatbelt, and are in rollover accident is when major injuries happen even loss of a life. “Probably the most important thing a person can do to survive a crash is to wear a seatbelt.”(Morgan) Seatbelts are beneficial and should be used to improve the safety of students on here on Western Michigan University
According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seat belts saved more than 13,000 lives nationwide (2010). This number is a large number amount of individuals whose lives have been saved by wearing a seatbelt. 13,000 people is enough people to fill an entire football stadium. For example, a seat belt helped save the life of a seventeen year old boy named Ethan. Ethan Mitchell was involved in a car accident in which caused his vehicle to tumble over. Ethan’s mother found him walking away from this accident with minor injuries because Ethan as well as the other passenger both were wearing their seatbelts. Mrs. Mitchell always taught Ethan the importance of seat belt safety, and Ethan listening to his mother saved his own life. If Ethan did not where his seat belt he could have ejected from the vehicle. Seatbelts are beneficial and individuals need to recognize that. When people do not use a seatbelt, and are in rollover accident is when major injuries happen even loss of a life. “Probably the most important thing a person can do to survive a crash is to wear a seatbelt.”(Morgan) Seatbelts are beneficial and should be used to improve the safety of students on here on Western Michigan University