Rhino
05-15-2006, 04:03 PM
Report: 48 Million People Don't Use Seat Belts on the Road
Monday, May 15, 2006
WASHINGTON — Seat belt use is reaching record levels, so just who are the holdouts who fail to buckle up? Often they are young men who live in rural areas and drive pickups, the government says.
About 48 million people do not regularly put on seat belts when they are on the road, a figure the government's highway safety agency hopes to lower with an annual public education campaign ahead of the summer driving season.
The "Click It or Ticket" campaign involves checkpoints, patrols and advertisements to help enforce seat belt laws. It runs from May 22 through June 4.
The latest report on seat belt use by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says men account for 65 percent of the more than 31,000 people killed each year in passenger vehicles.
The report being released Monday found:
—58 percent of those killed who were not wearing a seat belt crashed along rural roads.
—in crashes involving pickup trucks, about seven in 10 people who died were unbelted.
—more than six in 10 people age 8-44 who were killed inside a passenger vehicle were not buckled up............http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195483,00.html
Monday, May 15, 2006
WASHINGTON — Seat belt use is reaching record levels, so just who are the holdouts who fail to buckle up? Often they are young men who live in rural areas and drive pickups, the government says.
About 48 million people do not regularly put on seat belts when they are on the road, a figure the government's highway safety agency hopes to lower with an annual public education campaign ahead of the summer driving season.
The "Click It or Ticket" campaign involves checkpoints, patrols and advertisements to help enforce seat belt laws. It runs from May 22 through June 4.
The latest report on seat belt use by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says men account for 65 percent of the more than 31,000 people killed each year in passenger vehicles.
The report being released Monday found:
—58 percent of those killed who were not wearing a seat belt crashed along rural roads.
—in crashes involving pickup trucks, about seven in 10 people who died were unbelted.
—more than six in 10 people age 8-44 who were killed inside a passenger vehicle were not buckled up............http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195483,00.html