Wearing a seat belt‚ it is such an easy task. However‚ every day people choose not to wear it. When you think about it‚ it is absolutely amazing that a piece of fabric can be the difference between life and death. In the Oklahoma State University safety training website‚ research states that 40‚ 000 people die each year in car accidents. Yet‚ only 60% of people who drive actually wear there seat belt. It is estimated that safety belts save 13‚000 lives in the United States each year. Car accidents
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Seat Belts Lying in the morgue or a hospital bed is no fun. Why then do so many travelers refuse to use safety belts when traveling by car’ It’s time we made many more people belt up. Every 14 seconds someone is injured in a traffic accident in the USA. On average someone dies every thirteen minutes. In fact car crashes are the leading killer of Americans between the ages of 3 and 33. If those statistics had been buckled up‚ if they had been wearing their seat belts‚ the chances are they would
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Seatbelts Click it or ticket. We’ve all heard that saying‚ but does it help? Do people really worry about getting a ticket when they don’t buckle up? Millions of people across the nation choose not to wear seat belts even though it’s the law. Seatbelts were invented with the intent to save people’s lives. Since being invented seatbelts have reduced death during car crashes up to 50%. Most people don’t see the many reasons why they need to buckle up. The first reason is‚ the law requires all passengers
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Prewrite and Thesis Introduction: Topic – Seat belts in school busesThesis Statement – Seat belts should be required in school buses.Opponents suggests costly measure ‚ time children spend on buses‚ belts in car why not bus | Main Idea #1Time children spend on school bus | DetailStatistics of busses and children who travel on busses | DetailTravel involves not only to and from school busses used in trips and other non school related programs | Main Idea #2Belts required in cars as safety
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wearing your seat belt could make? Or have you ever though if wearing your seat belt would make a different outcome? Wearing a seatbelt drastically increases ones chance of surviving a car crash. Seatbelts are the single most effective way of protecting ones self in a motor vehicle‚ yet despite the overwhelming evidence twenty-five percent of teens do not. Its time we enforce
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adults and children. Seat belts were invented for the purpose to help reduce death and injuries. An airbag is not as effective if it was not for a seat belt. “In the United States‚ a mandatory seat belt law was first enacted in New York in 1984. Lund et al. [6] found a nine percent decline in traffic fatalities in the first nine months when New York enacted mandatory seat belt law.” (Dissanayake 32) There are two types of mandatory laws‚ Primary Seat Belt Law and Secondary Seat Belt Law. Depending on
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Although wearing your seat belt is one of the top safety precautions when it comes to riding or driving in a car‚ accidents still occur due to people being lazy and not wanting to wear their seat belt. Drivers and passengers do not wear seat belts for tons of little reasons. Some forget to wear them‚ while others are just plain lazy and think they shouldn’t have to put on seat belts. After some time‚ this becomes a really bad habit. Accidents can happen. Some may be small accidents‚ and some may
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Seat Belt Laws in Montana Op-ed Montana Fountain Claire 17 October‚ 2014 Writing 101-03 Seat Belt Laws in Montana There are many stories that circulate about being in car crashes‚ with or without wearing seatbelts. This particular story however‚ outlines what will be a constant theme throughout my whole paper: the horrible effects of not being buckled up while driving. This is a mother’s story‚ a woman by the name of Samantha Babcock. As you read this‚ think of how much the safety
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The first seat belt was invented in 1885 by a man named E.J. Claghorn. This first seatbelt was a simple lap belt. Although not very sophisticated‚ this simple lap belt still saved tons of people. However‚ seat belts had a rough start. People did not want to use them and they were not mandatory in most cars back in 1885. Some major brands of cars believed that in the event of an accident the seat belt would tear you in half. This was obviously false. Others believed that seat belts should be
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Seat Belt Law Timothy J. Mann Ashford University ENG 325 5-03-2014 Today in society it seems our government is taking away more and more of our rights. A law that I would like to discuss is the seat belt law. “New York was the first state to pass a law which required vehicle occupants to wear seat belts‚ a law that came into effect on Dec 1‚ 1984.” Where I live here in Indiana‚ they passed their first seat belt law on July 1‚ 1987. If you were pulled over in
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