Seat Belts
The National Transportation Highway Safety Administration estimates that seat belts save about 13,000 lives each year. That’s pretty compelling data. They further estimate that about 7000 fatalities yearly could be avoided if those passengers were wearing belts. Seat belts operate on a simple principle. Holding you in place upon impact is a … Keep Reading → lot safer than you being thrust against the dashboard or glass. They further help reduce trauma by focusing the impact on the upper torso of the body, which is much stronger than the individual areas that would otherwise be compressed against the windshield or dashboard. Seatbelts give slightly upon impact, further reducing the stress to the body. The overall effect is that the impact to the body of being held in place by the seatbelt is much less than if the body was to slam against much harder surfaces. Seatbelts also greatly reduce the chance of a person being thrown from the vehicle, which is extremely dangerous.
