Greetings!
At a educational session about health care reform, a man in the group described how he was in a car crash on a vacation to Scotland. He ended up spending 21 days in the hospital but was never billed due to their patient-friendly health system. After the session he admitted to me that the reason he was hurt was that he was not wearing a safety belt.
Keep up your efforts to encourage safety belt use! Buckling is free--the cheapest injury prevention available!
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NHTSA reports 84% national compliance
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Safety belt use stood at 84% as a national average in a September 2009 report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). read Seat Belt Use Nationwide Reaches 84 percentSafety Belt use continues to climb, and as it climbs, injury and fatality rates fall. This is outstanding news! But don't stop promoting safety belts yet! Safety belts continue to reduce serious injuries and fatalities by 45 to 50%. |
Community Safety and Wellness Festival
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Why not make safety belt information fun? Maybe it's because the results of not wearing a belt can be so gruesome, and maybe because talking about safety belts can be tedious. The egg crash display is anything but tedious, however, and the main response from kids at the Safety and Wellness Festival hosted by the National Safety Council, Greater Omaha Chapter was "Do it again!"
Moms agreed, and the consensus was that this is a great way to show the importance of safety belts.
Evidently watching eggs break is memorable as well. Several first-graders from Papillion remembered seeing the egg crash at Vehicle Day for the Papillion School District.
Does your town have a wellness event? CIDRI is available to attend!
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