First, because it protects the user from spinal cord and abdominal injuries that can occur from using a lap belt only. It also protects from neck injuries that can happen when you are wearing a lap belt only and your head hits the dashboard and jerks your head back. Both of these injuries can also occur from placing the shoulder strap behind your back or under your arm and reducing it from a 3 point to the 2 point lap belt only.

Secondly, because the 3 point system spreads the crash forces over a larger area and the strongest points of the body. This allows more of your body to absorb the forces of a crash.

False. Seat belts are designed to be comfortable and to allow motorists to perform whatever little movements they need in the course of driving. There is a locking mechanism (or inertia reel) that locks upon impact or sudden movement, mimicking a crash, that is what keeps us safe and in our seat.

False. It is important to remember that most crash deaths occur within 25 miles of home and at speeds of less than 40 mph. This emphasizes that everyday driving from just one neighbor’s home to another, to school, to the store etc, poses the greatest danger.

False. Airbags are designed to work with the seat belt to keep you away from the steering wheel and dash board, in a frontal crash. Together they give motorists a 60% greater chance of survival in a frontal crash. Alone, motorists who do not use the seat belt and rely on the airbag alone are likely to incur cervical spine fractures, spinal cord injuries, as well as chest, abdomen and head injuries and just more injuries and severe injuries in general. In addition, air bags will not help in a side, rear impact or roll over crash.

False. You can be the best driver in the world and you may never cause a crash but you may be in a crash. Motorists should wear a seat belt to protect themselves from the actions of other motorists on the road.

False. It doesn’t matter where you sit in a vehicle, seat belts keep you in your seat and in the vehicle in the event of a crash. Unbelted passengers are thrown forward, backward and sideways in a crash and the impact with other occupants can cause serious and even fatal injuries. Unbelted back seat passengers are known as backseat bullets because they have been known to kill front seat passengers and other occupants.

False. Passengers who are ejected from a vehicle in a crash are four times more likely to be killed in that crash. In many cases those individuals that are ejected are actually killed by their own vehicle.

False. It is true that cars are safer now but we also have many more on the road, weighing more than they used to, traveling at higher rates of speed, with more distractions and more complex road systems.

True.

* most unintential injuries are caused by motor vehicle collisions

True. (NJS 39:3-76.2f) Makes the driver responsible for proper use of seat belts by all occupants under the age of 18 riding in their vehicles.

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