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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.
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