Seat Belts In Cars

Dana Maliepaard was a young girl who went to Glasgow High School and was involved in an unrestrained car accident. Dana’s mother, Christie Maliepaard, believes that it is necessary to share Dana’s story with others so that they may learn from it. Dana’s story is used to show teen drivers that it is not only expected, but necessary to wear a seat belt. By wearing a seat belt when driving a car or riding in one, you are able to not only save your own life, but the ones of the people who care about you.

School buses, for as long as anyone can remember, have had no seat belts and children, for the most part, have been fine and ultimately safe. People may think this is unsafe and it sort of is but if something were to happen and these children could not get out of their seats fast enough a lot of circumstances could go wrong. Children enjoy their first bus ride and they do not want to be bombarded with all of this controversy over whether or not it is safe; they just want to get to school and back home. That is all a school bus is really, a short ride to and from school. Seat belts should not be required for school buses because children most likely would not wear them anyway and that could cause more danger, children should have a say as to whether they wear a seatbelt or not, and seat belts can cause a restricting situation where students could not exit the bus quickly and safely.

According to NHTSA, 13,941 lives were saved by seat belts in 2015 while an additional 2,814 could have been saved if properly restrained (2017). One impact of seat belt usage is reducing the risk serious or fatal injuries by about half. The CDC reported in 2009, 53% of occupants killed in crashes in the U.S. were not wearing seat belts (2014). According to data collected in 2008 by NHTSA, seat belts have saved an estimated 225,000 lives (2009). The benefit of wearing a seat belt can help increase chances of surviving a crash with little or no

Seat belts should be required on school buses for a lot of foreseen reasons. Seatbelts can make school buses so much safer in so many different ways. One reason why seat belts should be required on school buses is that it will save students' lives. According to an article released by the “Today” show “About 440,000 school buses carry 24 million kids each and every day during the school year, which can be dangerous if the bus gets in a crash. Undoubtedly, school buses should be required to have seat belts if 24 million kids ride school buses each day.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), “in 2015, seat belt use in passenger vehicles saved an estimated 13,941 lives” (1). The NHTSA goes on to say that almost 30 million Americans still don’t use seat belts on a daily basis. Since vehicle accidents are among the leading causes of death in the United States and even the world, the argument to improve seat belt technology has increased dramatically. Researchers are often more concerned with whether or not people are wearing their seat belts, not the effectiveness of them, until now, although both are incredibly important. Seat belt safety, which is directly related to seat belt technology, has been shown to be increasingly ineffective because of the high severity

For the people who use the excuse that "They are just going around the corner" should realize that 80% of traffic fatalities occur within a 25-mile radius of your home and at a speed of 40 miles an hour. Buckling up to drive around the block is probably the best time to do so. Everyone knows that car crashes can cause death; yet because people do not buckle up all the time thousands of people still die in traffic crashes yearly. Seatbelts can save your life in a crash and can reduce your risk of a serious injury. Seat belts keep drivers and passengers from being ejected through windows or doors. This is important because your chances of being killed are five times greater if you are thrown from the vehicle. Thousands of people who die in car crashes each year might still be alive today if they had only been wearing their seat belts.

Automobiles have been around for over a century. They help people get around town as technology improves over the years. Now with better fuel economy, we are excited to be driving around for many miles over the road. Although many of our cars have change overtime, the one thing that has never change is the seat belt that’s near our car doors. Whenever you get in any car on the road, its important that we depend on people to wear seat belts. Seat Belts are the ones we must wear before we head out on our cars. Its protect drivers from injuries sustain from crashes. Seat Belt inspire many states laws in America, but sometimes not all seat belt laws are mandatory. Only one state in the United States didn’t have any seat belts laws at all with the exception of the booster seat law. Anytime we get in our car, we always depend on seat belts to protect drivers from serious injuries or

Seatbelts is an excellent topic to write about for essay number two. I agree with you that seatbelts will drastically increase ones chances of surviving a car accident. One could argue though that seatbelts can also kill you in a car accident. While I myself know it to be true, that the odds of surviving while wearing a seatbelt compared to not are extremely high, not everyone knows that. A lot of people hear stories of freak cases in which people died wearing seatbelts, and use this as a reason not to wear a seatbelt. Statistically speaking, more people survive if they are wearing a seatbelt than if they are not. I know quite a few states have seatbelt laws in place such as the click it or ticket campaign, do you agree with this?

By not wearing a seat belt only the driver’s security is affected. First, Whenever a driver is not using his seat belt the protection of others on the road is not affected (Balaker 113). To clarify, There is simply no need to protect people from their poor decisions. Likewise, Laws should focus on protecting the

A recent multi-vehicle accident in Rutherford County is a reminder of the importance of using seatbelts. A 27-year-old woman was driving eastbound on State Route 840 West when her vehicle ran off the road. She overcorrected and crossed into oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with another vehicle. The 27-year-old was ejected from the vehicle and hit by a third vehicle. Both the 27-year-old woman and the driver of the second vehicle died from injuries sustained in the crash. Neither was wearing a seat belt, which, according to Tennessee Highway Patrol, would have made a difference in the crash.

Newton’s law of inertia states that an object in motion will stay in motion until an equal and opposite force stops it. In a collision, a driver’s car is stopped by another object (Ex: another car, a tree, a lamp post). Anything not attached to the car will continue to move forward because they are not stopped by the force that halted the car. Therefore a person who is not wearing a seatbelt during a collision would fly to the front of the car until they hit something (Ex: the dashboard, the wheel, a car seat).The stopping distance of the vehicle going 60 mph would be four times greater than that of the vehicle going 30 mph. This is because kinetic energy increases exponentially along with velocity. From my prior knowledge in physics, I know that the formula for

1.Objects that are moving will continue moving unless they are stopped by some other force, so if a seatbelt isn't stopping the person, the dashboard, windshield, or even an object outside the vehicle will, leading to severe injuries or even death.

As the fatalities and injuries continue to rise in traffic accidents, the use of the seat belt has proven to be one of the safer crash innovations that contribute to reduction in fatality rates (Abbas, 2011). It reduces the severity of injury by restraining the passengers and prevents them from hitting objects or being ejected from the vehicle. In the event of an accident, the seat belt acts to scatter kinetic energy of the body that is released on rapid deceleration, dissipating the energy through the body

As was mentioned in the previous topic of crumple zones inertia plays a great part in car crashes. When a car comes to an abrupt stop the driver continues to move in the car’s direction, this is because of inertia the resistance to a change in speed or direction of travel. Newton’s first law states an object at rest will stay at rest also unless acted upon by an external force conversely an object that is moving will keep moving in the same direction and speed unless acted upon by a external force the external force being the seat belt. This is because the velocities of the car and passenger are independent. The seat belt spreads this stopping force over a larger area as a result preventing the driver’s body from hitting the windshield or steering

The number one cause of death in U.S. children are motor vehicle accidents, but many of these can be prevented. Buckling children into car seats, booster seats and seat belts helps reduce the risk of injury while in a motorized vehicle. According to the CDC, “car seats reduces the risk of deaths to infants by 71%, and toddlers by 54%”. For the nation as the whole the average car seat usage is around 80% but for the Navajo nation it is much lower at around 35%. This shows the basic lack of education the Navajo people are receiving on the matter. Car Seat usage is a very serious public health issue on the Navajo nation. Some areas where more education has been provided see a rise to about 60%. Restraint use among young children often depends