In 2008, 53% of passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes were not wearing seat belts. This translates to approximately 13,000 fatalities involving people who were not wearing seat belts.
The number of crashes is not affected by the use (or lack thereof) of seat belts. The level of injury however is very significantly increased by the non-use of seat belts.
Nobody is exempt from wearing a seat belt. Seat belts and the laws around them were designed to protect people in the event of a collision.
Well, if people would buckle up there would not be 63% of car crashes annually.
100 a year
most of them
I forgot. Is heard a lot when asking someone why they are not wearing a seat belt. Cops now issue tickets to people for not wearing seat belts.
by wearing your seat belts
not as many as the car crashes in the world as people crash without wearing a seat belt. that's all I know
Many people don't wear seat belts because they think it is a personal choice. Seat belts do protect lives, and wearing one can save you hundreds of dollars.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistics for 2008, 10,691 people who died in auto crashes were wearing their seat belt.
In 2006, 42,642 people were killed in car accidents. The NHTSA was able to gather seat belt data on 30,251 of the 42,642 car occupants that died in car crashes. Nearly 56 percent, or 16836 people, of the 30,251 with available restraint information were not wearing seat belts at the time of the fatal auto accident. In conclusion, there are about 1403 people died every month due to not wearing a set belt in 2006.