Why you should were your seatbelt It was a normal Sunday in October. I was sitting around watching football with my dad. The late games were almost over when my friend Tyler called me. He called and asked if I wanted to go to Buffalo Wild Wings before the season premiere of The Walking Dead‚ I accepted. Any night out with Tyler is going to have some unexpected things but little did I know I was going to get some life advice from this particular occasion: wearing your seatbelt may be a small inconvenience
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are Just to reduce the damage to the people inside the vehicle. Technologies include: • Seatbelts • Airbags • Crumple zones • Traction control All these technologies are in place to help reduce the effects of a collision. Seatbelts are one of the most affective safety implications in place. They first of all stop a person during a collision from dismounting from the seat of the vehicle. How the seatbelt works is a bit of physics‚ inside the locking mechanism is a weight connected to the roll
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Could you imagine a world without accidents with cars‚ that involved seatbelts? This is possible! Car manufactures should create a system that prevents vehicles from operating when the seatbelt is disengaged. We would be able to have less deaths and injuries from people that don’t normally wear their seatbelts. As well as a great deal of money saved from insurance and accident-related payments. Even better‚ there will be an increase to the amount of safety you are given when people use these automobiles
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lane‚ not giving me a moment to react. I’d had my seatbelt on‚ and I awakened in the hospital with no memory of the accident except the back and head and leg injuries.” (TLA 34). When Holly and Jake got into the accident‚ only Holly survived. She felt that she could not live without him‚ and that life was so unfair and so unforgiving. Jake‚ as well as the what-ifs‚ were the only thing on her mind; what if he was driving‚ what if he wore his seatbelt‚ what if we had taken the bus that day. She knew
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Bobby Wilson English 102 October 4‚ 2011 Death by Seatbelt The question of how imperative is it to enforce seatbelt laws in order to mitigate or reduce the number of deaths in the United States resulting from automotive accidents. The answer may somewhat obscure; the reason being because this issue has been an ongoing debate since 1849. “Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the United States among persons aged 5–34 years” (vital signs: Nonfatal‚ motor vehicle‚ 1681)
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Seatbelts Laws Are Beneficial- Disagree The article that is being critique is called “Primary Seat belt Enforcement Laws Are Beneficial.” The author of this article is Kathyrn O’Leary Higgins. She explains on the reasoning behind why seatbelt laws are very beneficial to wear. Her main reasoning of this article is to explain and commend you for considering this measure that will so easily save many motor vehicle occupants from crash-related deaths and injuries. She strongly believes that people
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The Importance of Seatbelts What happens if you forget to buckle your seatbelt just one time in the course of your day? The odds of something happening‚ that may or may not be detrimental to your health‚ is purely coincidental‚ or is it? Perhaps statistics‚ and a personal event in my life‚ can explain the importance of the seatbelt. Statistics show that more than forty thousand deaths‚ in the United States‚ are caused from car accidents each year. More than half of them could have been prevented
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With increased interstate speed limits‚ distracted drivers‚ and more vehicles on the roadway buckling up could be the most important few seconds of the day. Seat belts‚ sometimes known as restraint devices‚ have been proven to reduce serious and fatal injuries in crashes. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ the leading cause of death in the U.S. among people between the ages of 1-54 is traffic crashes (2017). Most states have a mandatory seat belt law however many drivers
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When driving a short distance from home or down the block‚ it doesn’t seem worth the bother to use a seatbelt. You’re driving in your neighborhood‚ you aren’t going very far‚ and you’re driving less than 30 mph. That is‚ the area is practically your backyard and must be safe. And you’re driving so slow‚ that in the unlikely event of an accident‚ it’ll be little more than a fender bender. What’s the harm in that? If there is absolutely no other traffic on the route taken‚ the driving conditions are
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For years‚ the trusty seat belt provided the sole form of passive restraint in our cars. There were debates about their safety‚ especially relating to children‚ but over time‚ much of the country adopted mandatory seat-belt laws. Statistics have shown that the use of seat belts has saved thousands of lives that might have been lost in collisions. Like seat belts‚ the concept of the airbag -- a soft pillow to land against in a crash -- has been around for many years. The first patent on
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