Seat Belts do Work
Over half of the crashes in the United States end in deaths because they were not wearing a seatbelt or any harness that secures them to the car. All cars had some form of seatbelts; first, they had shoulder belt then in 1974 they had the same design of seat belts that we have now. A survey in a few places said that only ten percent of the population in 1982 used the seatbelts. After new York had passed the first seat belt law, the percentage of seat belt use rose quickly to fifty percent. In 1996 the only state that didn’t have a mandatory seat belt law was new Hampshire. By 2009 the percentage of seat belt use almost doubled to 88 percent in the thirty states. “15.6-percent decline in injury rate from 1,193.8 injuries
Over half of the crashes in the United States end in deaths because they were not wearing a seatbelt or any harness that secures them to the car. All cars had some form of seatbelts; first, they had shoulder belt then in 1974 they had the same design of seat belts that we have now. A survey in a few places said that only ten percent of the population in 1982 used the seatbelts. After new York had passed the first seat belt law, the percentage of seat belt use rose quickly to fifty percent. In 1996 the only state that didn’t have a mandatory seat belt law was new Hampshire. By 2009 the percentage of seat belt use almost doubled to 88 percent in the thirty states. “15.6-percent decline in injury rate from 1,193.8 injuries