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G rash o n ^ u tlo o tt Wed,, June 16, 1982; Sondy Post, Thurs., June 17, 1982 — 3
Survey finds
safe drivers
wear seatbelts
M ore than two m illion per
sons suffered disabling inju
rie s fr o m m o to r v e h ic le
accidents in the U S. in 1980
-a n d 5 3 ,330 lost their lives.
This— in a nation where, ac
cording to the National Safety
Council, only 10.9 percent o f
all motorists regularly use oc
cupant safety restraints
How many o f these injuries
and deaths could have been
prevented had seat belts been
com pulsory no longer is a
matter for conjee ture.
In the Canadian province o f
Ontario, for example, where
the use o f seat belts is required
by law. accidents in which
safety belts were not worn by
30,206 drivers resulted in in
juries to 8 ,7 8 0 or 29 percent,
while 370 were killed.
In contrast, o f the 265,392
drivers involved in accidents
who were wearing seat belts,
only 3 8 ,2 1 6 or 14 percent
were mjuied, 143 were killed.
W ill drivers take greater
nsks where th ey’re compelled
by law to buckle up?
Not according to a study by
three G e n e ra l M o to rs r e
searchers.
Risk-taking— measured in
terms o f how closely one car
follows another in high-flow
freew ay tr a ff ic — was an a
lyzed in Ontario, with a seat
belt law dating back to 1976,
and in Michigan where there
is no such law
Observers collected data on
4 ,8 1 2 cars and lig h t-d u ty
trucks by photographing each
vehicle as it passed a reference
mark and recording the time
interval between the succes
sive photographs.
They determ ined that 51
percent o f the drivers in O n
tario used their shoulder har
ness, co m p ared w ith o n ly
about 17 percent in Michigan
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