Seatbelts: Should You Decide! Every time you get in the car you make a life or death decision when you decide to buckle up or not to buckle up. If you've ever been in an auto accident you should know how hard it is to resist the force of inertia, impossible. Do you know that at only 25 mph a 12-lb baby would suddenly become a 240-pound baby that's almost impossible to hold on to. (GMAC …
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…another sunrise. Of front-seat passenger's safety belts prevented about 120,000 moderate-to-critical injuries in 1989. In that same year if all front-seat occupants had been wearing safety belts, 15,535 peoples' lives may have been saved. (Buckle-Up America, P.1) Even if you have an airbag installed in your car it doesn't mean you don't need to wear a seatbelt. Of the 68 adult fatalities resulting from air bag employment since 1990, 62 of them were due to failure to wear a safety belt.