Seat Belts

According to some research report from the National Highway Traffic and safety Administration from USA,seatbelts save approximately 13,000 lives in the United States each year. Furthermore, the NHTSA estimates that 7,000 U.S. car accident fatalities would have been avoided if the victims had been wearing seatbelts. A seat belt is sometimes called a safety belt in some countries, seat belts is a safety object used in cars or sometimes also known as the car harness and is designed to secure the car passenger of the vehicle from any harmful movement in the car that may result from a collision or a sudden stop that can injure or kill the person. This safety equipment is a part of an overall automobile or car online system, seat belts seat belts are intended and built to reduce injuries by stopping the passenger from hitting hard interior objects or exterior objects of the vehicle, or other passengers, Seat belts are in the correct position for the airbag to deploy and prevent the passenger from being thrown from the vehicle to the road. Seat belts also absorb energy by being designed to stretch during any sudden deceleration, so that there is less speed differential between the passengers body and the passengers or owners of the vehicle interior, and also to spread the loading of the impact on the passengers body and reduce the amount of damage. In Abu Dhabi Despite 92 per cent of the UAE university students knowing someone who has been involved in a traffic accident, a staggering 55 per cent still do not use car seatbelts (BMW 2011)

Benefits and limitations

Benefits:
Seat belts are responsible for saving thousands of lives each year by restraining passengers from being thrown out of their seat or even out of the vehicle. inpatient hospital care for those motorists or car drivers who dont wear a seat belt ranks twice as high to those who did wear seat belt If 90 per cent of Americans buckled up. 5,500 deaths and 132,000 injuries would be prevented each and every year

Limitations:
Seatbelts can be safe and they greatly reduce the incidence of death and serious injuries, seat belts are not that perfect. Often, they contribute to accident-related injuries, as is described by the term seat belt syndrome. In many cases, the fibres of the seat belt can cause harm to the chest and abdominal areas. Children are at the highest risk for seat-belt-related injuries and should be closely monitored after a car crash even if they appear unharmed at the first glance. Most injuries that are cause to drivers and passengers are cause by being in contact with the steering wheel, dashboard, windscreen and the sides of the roof of the vehicle. Lap and shoulder belts have proven their value in preventing severe or fatal injury in the majority of crashes. Cars with advanced seat belt features that provide even greater protection are becoming more available every time.

Facts:

Every hour someone dies in America simply because they didnt take 2 seconds to buckle up. Failure to buckle up plays a role in more motor vehicle fatalities than any other traffic safety-related behaviours. Proper use of child safety seats reduces fatal injury by 71 per cent and by 54 per cent for toddlers (one to four years old) in passenger cars. If a crash occurs at 40 miles per hour, a 150 pound, unbelted occupant will be thrown from the vehicle with 6,000 pounds of force.

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