U.S. seat belt use rises to record 82%
50 years after the rest of the world, the United States has broken through the 80% rate for seatbelt wearing.
According to the Houston Chronicle, The compliance rate, at 82 percent, helped highway fatalities drop to the lowest rate since record keeping began 30 years ago, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said. He estimated that seat belts annually save nearly 16,000 lives, prevent hundreds of thousands of injuries and save the economy $67 billion a year. A decade ago, just six in 10 drivers wore seat belts.
“The fact that safety belts save lives is starting to click with the American people,” Mineta told a Mothers Against Drunk Driving convention in Washington, where he announced the latest figures. Drunken-driving fatalities also fell for the second consecutive year, he said.
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