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CAUTION:
Don’t let anyone ride where he or she can’t wear a safety belt
properly.
If
you are in a crash and you’re not wearing a safety
belt, your injuries
can
be much worse. You can hit things inside
the vehicle or be ejected from it. You
can
be seriously injured or
killed. In the same crash, you might not be if you are buckled
up. Always fasten your safety belt, and check that your
passengers’ belts are fastened properly too.
Your vehicle has a light that comes on as a reminder
to
buckle up. (See
“Safety Belt Reminder Light”
in
the Index.)
In
many states and Canadian provinces, the law says to wear safety belts.
Here’s why:
They
work.
You
never know
if
you’ll be
in
a crash. If
you
do have a crash, you don’t
know
if
it
will be
a
bad one.
A
few crashes are mild, and some crashes can be
so
serious that even
buckled up a person wouldn’t survive. But most crashes are in between. In
many of them, people who buckle up can survive and sometimes walk away.
Without belts
they
could have been badly
hurt
or killed.
After more than
25
years of safety belts
in
vehicles, the facts are clear.
In
most crashes buckling up does matter
...
a lot!
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