In a new PSA for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Gov. Corzine stresses the importance of safety belts with a simple message: “I should be dead.”
The PSA comes amidst an aggressive nationwide seatbelt enforcement drive. Expect to see checkpoints and more police on the road this Memorial Day, all part of the “Click It or Ticket” campaign. Before you decide to drive unbuckled, consider these facts from NHTSA:
- Nationally in 2005, 77 percent of the passenger vehicle occupants who were in a fatal crash and who were buckled up, survived the crash.
- When worn correctly, seat belts have proven to reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passenger car occupants by 45 percent – and by 60 percent in pickup trucks, SUVs and mini-vans.
- Men – especially younger men – are much less likely to buckle up. In 2005, 67 percent of male drivers and 74 percent of male passengers between the ages of 18 and 34 in passenger vehicles who were killed in crashes were NOT wearing their seat belts.
Don’t learn about seat belt safety the hard way. Buckle up!
4 Comments on "Gov. Jon Corzine: “I Should Be Dead”"
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his name is spelled jon
lester a rice
how can i do more to help with amw i like to be in law
kelly
It takes an accident to realize you should have worn your seatbelt for some people , like me when I was 8yrs old we were in a car accident. I wasn’t wearing my seatbelt, my father was the only one who had it on. I guess what I am tring to say is that some people don’t get that second chance like we did so you should wear you seatblet all the time even a short distance.
I should be dead
Today, I realize I shouldn’t be alive. Today, me and some friends were just driving around. Normal day, normal drive. I do street race a bit and I do drift a little too. In my car I had 3 people, and we were going to my friends house to hang out. There’s a back road that I know that is a perfect place for drifting. My friends have seen me drift and race so they want me to drift. I don’t know what is was but I guess it was the peer pressure. I wasn’t thinking at all about what I was doing, I was 20 mph over what I usually drift at and when I entered the drift it felt like the best one I had ever done. I was literally 90 degrees. The next second later I felt the car going out of control, I dont even remember what happened but I knew I ended up over steering too much and turn over 100 degrees. I went right over the curb sideways, And the next second I knew I was Between two large trees. I had missed the trees by a foot or less on both sides. My car is undamaged, and everyone is OK, but its one of those things where. You look back and think ” I should be dead”. I feel like the luckiest man in the world.
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