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As law enforcement agencies launch their 2003 May mobilization
to encourage seat belt use, the latest statistics are
offering a sobering reason to support the effort:
Nothing kills more teenagers than
motor vehicle crashes
(45% of people unbelted in a car crash are killed while
60% are killed when unbelted in a pickup truck accident),
and more often than not, if a teenager is involved, they
were not buckled up.
According to data compiled by the National Highway Traffic
and Safety Administration (NHTSA), more teenagers and
children are killed in motor vehicle crashes than from
any other cause and motor vehicle crashes are the leading
cause of death for people from 4 through 33 years!
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