Seatbelts, Your Personal Life Saver

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.

Therefore, it would be unethical for individual citizens to ignore the governmental requirement for people to use seat belts in their vehicles. Adhering to seat belt laws is important for individuals not only in improving drivers and travelers use of seatbelts through penalty avoidance and police enforcement but also indirectly by enhancing a culture of good ethical behaviors. Additionally, failure to wear seatbelt is dangerous to the individual’s livelihood and health. A person is highly

There are many people who do not understand the importance of seat belts for safety. They do not wear their seat belts even though they know the mortality statistics. Most of them think that seat belts do not help when an accident occurs. We have all made the excuse that the seat belt is uncomfortable. Driving is a dangerous duty that should always be practiced with more caution and care. Some people think that not wearing a seatbelt is rebellious. Other people think that they will never get into accident. Some of the consequences of not wearing a seat belt is that you could die, you can get injured and many more. So far, the only way to avoid these consequences from happening is to wear a seatbelt.

1.Wearing seat belt saves many people.Seat belt use virtually eliminates the possibility of ejection from the vehicle.Wearing seat belt keeps you from being thrown from your vehicle..It keeps you from banging against parts of your car such as the door.It can also keep you not to hit to steering and the thing in front of you.Seat belts keep the driver and passengers from banging each other, a cause of real injury in some accidents.Airbags are some times useless if you are not wearing seat belt,you can be thrown from your car.If you has thrown from the car, you can be hit some parts of car.So people wearing seat belts can be illegal.

“Seat belts are the single most effective traffic safety device for preventing death and injury in a vehicle” (“Seat Belt Safety, Seat Belt Laws”). Wearing a seat belt can reduce the risk of crash injuries by 50%. Seat belts save lives and are effective in preventing ejections from a vehicle. While opponents argue that in certain cases it is better to not wear a seatbelt, wearing a seatbelt is usually the safer route. A person will never know what type of accident they might enter and thus can’t prepare for a certain type of accident. You can’t know whether or not having a seatbelt will save you. It’s better to wear a seatbelt and have a 50% of survival than not wearing a seatbelt and have a 3% chance of being in a situational accident where not having a seat belt will save you. Research shows that “Seat Belts saved more than 75,000 lives from 2004 to 2008” (“Seat Belt Safety, Seat Belt Laws”). Without the mandatory use of seat belts, many lives could be put in danger and this would have negative social and economic effects on society.

Recently, a primary seat belt law was proposed during a legislative meeting for our state. The law would allow for drivers to be pulled over specifically for not wearing their seat belts. Currently, only 77 percent of Montanans buckle-up. This is much lower than the national average of 88 percent and significantly less than Texas, Washington, and Oregon, where fines ranging from $110 to $200 likely play a part in about 94 percent of people buckling up. Similar bills were proposed in Montana in 2011 and 2013, but they did not pass. Whether the primary seat belt law goes through or not, there are several things you can do to help prevent anyone in your family from suffering a personal injury in a vehicle accident.

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

Seat belts worn correctly can reduce the chances of death in a collision by 47% and the chances of serious injury by 52% (Stewart et al., 1997). All new vehicles sold in Canada today are equipped with three-point seat belts in all positions. Many vehicles are also equipped with seat belt pretensioners,

In 2016, 3,773 people died in a motor vehicle traffic accident and of that 3,773, 43.71% were reported not wearing a seatbelt when the crash occurred. The “Click it or Ticket” slogan was made to encourage drivers to wear seatbelts, but it’s impossible to pull over every single person that isn’t wearing

Car crashes are the number one death of teenagers, a lot of these deaths are by the use of technology and not buckling up. To begin, the National safety council reports that “28% of vehicle crashes”, are caused by the use of technology (Klass & Roney 5). Many accidents are caused by teens looking at their phones and the use of social media behind the wheel. If more stricter laws are set on phones in cars that percentage should fall. In general, the use of phones today by people is just about everyone and people should be more smart and not be using their phones while driving not just for their safety but others. Furthermore, the amount of teens that die in car accidents is “Four times the amount of drivers twentyfive to sixtynine”(Klass & Roney 3). Younger drivers do not buckle up as many other older and experienced drivers. The more young drivers that are taught what the real impacts of not wearing a seatbelt can cause they would probably be more wise. Generally speaking, some young teen drivers do not see the seatbelt as being important, when really it is the most important thing in the car.

Seatbelt laws are great because they hold people accountable for their safety as well as the safety of others. If you are hit by a vehicle and are not wearing a seatbelt you are liable to fly just about anywhere in that vehicle farther injuring yourself and others. Imagine getting hit head on with no seatbelt on, your heads going straight into the glass and depending on how fast you were going you may find yourself going through the window onto the street. Now that all could have been avoided simply by buckling up. My car does not move unless everyone in it is buckled. When I am driving I am responsible for everyone in the vehicle If I were to let it slide and let people go without a seatbelt then I am putting everyone else in the car in farther

Something that irritates me is when people, who obviously know right from wrong, don’t use their seatbelts. There’s a reason why not wearing a seatbelt is illegal and enforced in most states. The leading cause of death among is teens is vehicle accidents. In 2012 it was reported that in half of the deaths, the person was no not wearing any type or restraint or seatbelt. Meaning 33,000 people died and another 2.2 million were injured. This has a consequence and as a teenager myself, it makes me sad to think that kids, just like me, had their life cut short. Many of them could’ve went to college, pursue a career, become the world’s future doctors, businessmen, and leaders. Most people don’t know what they’re risking when they don’t buckle up. In addition to the tragedy

Well on this earth we need laws like everywhere we go, but there are some laws that people cannot handle. The main law that they need to take away is the seat belts. I know it sounds crazy, but people are not even using the seat belts while they’re driving. I know that seat belts are supposed to keep people safe, but people nowadays do not even care. For example, big people; some of them cannot even put their seat belts around themselves. Now some will say “well they need seat belts for safety reasons.”

In today’s world, there is a constant debate on whether or not it should be illegal to not wear a seatbelt. Some of the population claim it does as much harm wearing one in an accident, just as much as not wearing one at all. The main common factors for not wearing a seatbelt that leads to fatalities are, ejection, airbags, and other drivers themselves.