Attention-getter: Every hour someone dies in crash simply from not buckling his or her seat belt, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Web site, 2002.
Reason to Listen: From 1982 to 1996, an estimated 3,300 lives were saved by the used of seat belt and child restraint systems, according to the Espine Organization’s Web site, 1997.
Credibility Statement: From the research I have completed for this speech, I have learned that seat belts do save lives, as well as, keep your from serious injuries.
Thesis Statement: When you are driving or even riding in a vehicle, buckling your seat belt will decrease your chance to death or serious injury, if you get in a serious accident. …show more content…
Transition: Now that I have talked about the problems of not wearing your seat belt, and I would like to continue with a solution to these problems.
There is only one main solution to the problem; wear your seat belt.
This solution could be reached through several different ways.
The first step was in 1966, when Congress passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
The second step is to get the state or federal government to make people wear seat belts by passing laws requiring it.
Nebraska’s laws in that drivers and front-seat passengers must use seat belt systems worn properly, adjusted, and fastened, according the Nebraska DMV, 2002.
This law is only s secondary low, which means the driver, is cited for his violation only if cited or charged with an additional violation or some other offense.
Violation results in a $25 fine addition to court costs.
So the government needs to make the seat belt law a primary law, which means that if a police officer observes you not wearing a seat belt, they can give you a ticket.
In 2001, seat belt usage rate was 70.2 …show more content…
There are many benefits to wearing your seat belt.
Wearing your seat belt keeps you inside your vehicle.
You are 25 times more likely to be killed or injured if you’re thrown from the car, according to Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Web site, March 2000.
If you are thrown “free” you may be thrown into the path of your own if it rolls over, traffic, or at tree, guardrail, telephone pole, or other object.
Wearing your seat belt will save you from injury or death.
Seat belts reduce the risk of fatal injury to front seat passengers car occupants by 45 percent, according the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Seat belts saved 4,305 teenager drivers involved in fatal traffic accidents between 1995-2002, according to article in the Lincoln Journal Star in July 2002.
Nebraska and United States seat belt usage rate are increasing.
According to Nebraska Office of Highway Safety, 2000, in 1985 the seat belt rate in Nebraska was 45%; and in 2000, the rate was 71%.
According to Nebraska Office of Highway Safety, 2000 in 1985 the seat belt rate in the United States was 21%, and in 2000, the rate was