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f Page 6 Daily Nebraskan Ron A Labor Day Thompson special and The Resistors 4 n 9:00-1:00 Wednesday - Saturday from San Francisco September 1st if teller tqmily Bqtery- "The besf-fcqoels wife) striking distance 6 if- it 82.1 S. UtK 374-54rti Chris Welsch Daily TJebraskan PS. Ard -thzre's alivay5 A 3 1 1 A LL ' Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan Jill Stalnaker eats her Ice cream while socializing with other students and faculty at the Ice Cream Social held at the East Campus Union. The social was sponsored by the Agriculture Advisory Board and Faculty Advisory Council. - t ff Ji . y, i : ft I'T. 3 -t- : ---"5-;l .j '.I 1 1 1 ! IF k' I H3l ' k. S H 111 lllilllf -A 4jri5;:!!f I 1 s-H-fii:f GEORGE THOROGOOD LIVE ra BONE. WHO DO YOU LOVE S7- 5 V?A - ii IIIOKI ,r RECORDS TAPES n 237 So. 70th - 220 No. 10th Friday, August 29, 1986 Seat belts reduce injuries By Michael Hooper Senior Reporter Obeying the seat-belt law may be saving some Nebraskins from traffic injuries, according to statistics from the Nebraska Motor Vehicles Depart ment of Highway Safety. The number of injuries to car pas sengers between January and June of this year was the lowest it's been since 1972. Nebraska's mandatory seat belt law went into effect Sept. 6, 1983. While 8,527 car passengers were injured during the six-month period last year, 7,872 were injured this year, despite a 1.04 percent increase in vehi cle miles driven. "If you increase miles driven, it's logical to predict that accidents and injuries would increase," said Fred Zwonechek, administrator of the De partment of Highway Safety. "But that didn't happen. "The only thing we can possibly attribute that (decrease in injuries) to is the increased use of seatbelts," Zwonechek said. Last year 1 1 percent of drivers and front-seat passengers wore their seat belts, Zwonechek said. This year, according to department surveys, be tween 37 and 46 percent wore their seat belts. Zwonechek said surveys were taken by department workers who stood on specific rural and urban roads, and wrote down the numbers of those wear ing belts and of those who didn't. Between 1980 and 1985 the number of injuries between January and June stayed around 8,550. The number of fatalities fluctuated during the same time period. While the number of those who died in car crashes went from 140 in 1980 down to 86 in 1983, the number rose to 123 this year. Last year 93 died in car accidents. "People expected a reduction in fatalities," Zwonechek said, "which didn't occur." He explained that a majority -of those drivers and pas sengers involved in fatal accidents are least likely to wear seat belts, based on their prior driving records of accidents and violations. "Of all drivers, they ought to be wearing them because they're high risk," Zwonechek said. He said 40 per cent of all fatalities involved alcohol. There were 335 fewer accidents this year compared to last. lit 1 SMITH S CORON1V PERSONAL WORD PROCESSOR PWP System 12 Add it to your computer-compatible Smith Corona electronic typewriter for a complete, dedicated word processing system. Correct, add, delete, move words, lines and entire blocks of text without retyping. 012" monitor has 80 characters X 24 line display. Built-in menu guides you every step of the way. 64,000 character working memory (32 pages of text). Unlimited storage via Microwafers -64,000 characters each PWPSytn12 $QQ WordProcMMr ti7S Potw ml ndufed m price ol PW onnoawle $459 Bloom 1 ypewriter 323 N. 13th St. 474-4136