Seatbelt Essay

be asking ourselves is if its illegal for you and your child to not wear a seatbelt in a vehicle? Then why would I put my child on a bus without a seat bealt? By law the bus driver wears a seatbelt but your young child is sitting in the seat right behind them without a seatbelt, or a car seat. In my opinion we should have seatbelts on the school buss. If there’s not as many accidents reported for school busses then seatbelts shouldn’t be a problem on school busses. Recently the news has been

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

car accident was just a dream and if I tried hard enough I would wake up in my warm toasty bed. But I didn’t wake up because it was all real and nothing could change that. I realized that I could have easily died, but I didn’t. I choose to wear a seatbelt now because of the day that changed my life forever. It all started on a warm Wednesday night and since we didn’t have religion my friend Holly and I decided to go to vendors that were going on in Dyersville. So we all decided to hop into my mom’s

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

tends to stay in motion with the same speed and direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” In the event that a person who is not wearing a seatbelt gets into a collision they will continue to stay in motion until they hit the dashboard, windshield or etc. The way to prevent injuries from occurring during a collision would be wearing your seatbelt as it stops the forward momentum. Kinetic energy affects the stopping distance of two identical vehicles going different speeds because when you

BANG! CRASH! We had just slipped on black ice and flew off the road. The car started to flip and I could feel my body starting to slip out from my seat. Should’ve worn my seatbelt. By the time the car had flipped 4-5 times off the road and finally stopped by a fallen down tree, when I looked over Jillian was unconscious. I couldn’t move to even see if she was still breathing. It was freezing outside and my jeans started to feel wet because the snow had made its way in from the broken windows. Jillian

On November 21, 2016, a Chattanooga, Tennessee school bus rolled and wrapped around a tree. It was transporting 37 children. Out of the 37, 23 were hospitalized, six of them in critical condition, one died two days later, five of them never left the crash site alive. (Chattanooga School Bus Crash) On May 20, 2003, a Siloam Springs school bus rolled and went down an embankment. Twenty-one injured, seven hospitalized; two of them in critical condition; one of them died at the scene. (Grace, Francie)

will fall forward if there is no seatbelt. The seatbelt is a safety device that is commonly found on car seats and aircraft seats, it is made from strong durable materials such as fabric, nylon or polyester. Cars that are manufactured are required to have seatbelts due to road safety laws. The law was introduced in the 1970s, it was shown that having seatbelts reduced the amount of road deaths. The seatbelt was invented by George Cayley in the 1800’s, the seatbelt appeared on planes in the 1900’s

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

in a car accident were not wearing seatbelts. That's more than 10,000 lives that could have been saved. 10,000 people who are missed each day by their loved ones. Those 10,000 lives that could have been saved just by putting on a seatbelt. Wearing a seatbelt could save your life, prevent injury, and it is the law. Wearing a seatbelt is such a simple thing that can prevent many injuries. Wearing a seat belt keeps you inside of the car, not wearing a seatbelt can result in being launched through