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!
Why Safety Belts Work
When you ride in or
on
anything, you go as fast as it goes.
For example, if the
bike is going
10
mph
(16
km/h),
so
is the
child.
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