Nearly six in seven U.S. adults now wear seat belts. And the seventh? They're dead.
This increase in driver safety has helped cut motor vehicle deaths and injuries, according to the Center for Disease Control. Wow, I though the CDC just worried about ebola and bird flu, not traffic accidents. About 85% of adults in a 2008 survey said they wear seat belts, up from under 81% in 2002. Only 11% wore them in 1982, before the first state law requiring seat belt use.
The slow growing use of belts has lead to a decline of more than 15% in non-fatal vehicle crash injuries from 2001 to 2009. Traffic fatalities also fell in 2009 to 33,808, the lowest number since 1950. But don't worry my blood thirsty friends, there will always be some morons who have trouble with the simple task of clicking a belt - it's thinning the herd from the inside, one car at a time.
This increase in driver safety has helped cut motor vehicle deaths and injuries, according to the Center for Disease Control. Wow, I though the CDC just worried about ebola and bird flu, not traffic accidents. About 85% of adults in a 2008 survey said they wear seat belts, up from under 81% in 2002. Only 11% wore them in 1982, before the first state law requiring seat belt use.
The slow growing use of belts has lead to a decline of more than 15% in non-fatal vehicle crash injuries from 2001 to 2009. Traffic fatalities also fell in 2009 to 33,808, the lowest number since 1950. But don't worry my blood thirsty friends, there will always be some morons who have trouble with the simple task of clicking a belt - it's thinning the herd from the inside, one car at a time.
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