Drive time - No seatbelts

Another big problem on the road is no seatbelts; the chances of dying in a crash are raised by nearly 30% higher than if you were wearing a seatbelt. Some people will see wearing a seatbelt as un-cool and not impressive, some people just can’t be bothered to wear a seatbelt. I think that most people today are just used to putting on a seatbelt and don’t think twice, for me it’s the first thing I do because I have always had to from a young age and now I just do it.
Wearing a seatbelt is seriously dangerous and not just for you, if you are in the front of the car there is a big chance that you can go through the windscreen and go quite a long way depending on the speed the car you are travelling in crashes, if you are in the back seat then you don’t only run the risk to yourself, you can hit the person in front of you and cause serious damage to the person in front of you.

I asked a fire fighter from East Sussex fire brigade about the problems of not wearing seatbelts and he said this “it’s amazing how many people aren’t wearing seatbelts on our roads. It is such a danger for people to not wear seatbelts; they can stop you being thrown through your windscreen. The amount of crashes I have had to go to and seen a body laying 50ft away from the car is scary. It’s just as dangerous for someone in the backseat to not wear a seatbelt because they aren’t putting just themselves at risk. Whatever the speed the car is doing, the person will go head first into the seat in front of them and injure the person in front of them”.
Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety-related behaviour 63% of people killed in accidents are not wearing seat belts. Wearing a seat belt use is still the single most effective thing we can do to save lives and reduce injuries on British roads. Data suggests that education alone is not doing the job with young people, especially males ages 16 to 25 the age group least likely to buckle up. Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles today, estimated to save 9,500 lives each year. Yet only 68 percent of the motor vehicle occupants are buckled. If 90 percent of people in Britain buckle up, we will prevent more than 5,500 deaths and 132,000 injuries annually. The cost of unbuckled drivers and passengers goes beyond those killed and the loss to their families. We all pay for those who don't buckle up in higher taxes, higher health care and higher insurance costs. On average, inpatient hospital care costs for an unbelted crash victim are 50 percent higher than those for a belted crash victim. Society bears 85 percent of those costs, not the individuals involved. Every American pays about $580 a year toward the cost of crashes. If everyone buckled up, this figure would drop significantly. By reaching the goal of 90 percent seat belt use, and 25 percent reduction in child fatalities, about 8.8 billion will be saved annually.