Click It has received multiple emails in the last weeks about crash survivors who were saved by their safety belts. Here are a couple:
"My sister's daughter was in a bad accident on Saturday afternoon but is doing ok. She was wearing her seat belt and had her cruise set--she fell asleep, went into the ditch, hit an approach, flew 72 feet in the air, front end hit, flipped end for end xamount times ended up on its roof.... Amazingly there were no broken bones or bad cuts"
"Jacob and Zach were in a single cab Chevy Truck and rolled because of a ridge of gravel on a gravel road.
Because of the child infant seat and Jake's seat belt they will both be okay. Zach was okay right away except for 2 scratches on his one hand. Jake has a cracked vertebra in his lower back that will heal with about 10 weeks of wearing a brace."
"There was a rollover accident because of ice west of town and the driver was ejected through the sunroof. He's in stable condition, but the kids all said, "SEE!" "
Let's see if the Internet works to increase safety belt usage! Pass this newsletter on to everyone you know and invite them to join the Nebraska Coalition to Save Lives through Safety Belt Usage. Let's increase our membership; let's increase the number of people working on this issue, and let's get safety belt usage up to 100% in Nebraska in 2009!
