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Greetings!
Laws governing safety belts differ across the United States. Some states have primary laws, which allow law enforcement personnel to stop and ticket you if you are not wearing a safety belt.
There are states with secondary laws, which require that you must have broken another law, such as speeding, before you can be stopped, and you may at that point be given a ticket for not wearing a belt. Nebraska has a secondary law.
There's even a state in the United States that has no safety belt law. That state is New Hampshire, whose motto is "Live Free or Die".
Since the laws of physics are natural, they have no boundaries. There are no primary or secondary considerations, and they work the same in either the front or back seat. They also work the same if you're buckled and your passenger is not. Force still equals speed times weight, and an unbuckled passenger may not only be killed by being thrown out of the vehicle, they may kill a buckled passenger on the way out.
Thanks for promoting safety belt use. Regardless of the law, using safety belts saves lives.
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Science of Safety
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| Science has given us many safety devices--the safety belt among them. Safety experts estimate that safety belts save more than four thousand lives a year in the United States alone, but that number pales when one of the lives saved belongs to someone you care about. We know that safety belts are 45 to 50% effective at reducing or eliminating injuries and fatalities, but only if they're used.
 Nils Bohlin invented the modern safety belt while working in the aircraft industry. He first brought the concept to the automotive industry via Volvo, the Swedish car manufacturer.
"Nils Bohlin recognized that both the upper and lower
body needed to be held securely in place. His invention contained a cloth strap that was
placed across the chest and another strap across the hips. The design joined the straps next to the hip."
Now that we have belts, it's up to each of us to use them and to encourage others to use them as well. What opportunities do you have to remind your colleague and acquaintances about the importance of safety belts?
Science of Safety--learn about how safety belts were invented
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League Association of Risk Management
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Chronicle
Correction: The League Association of
Risk  Management (LARM) took part in a mid-winter conference sponsored by the
League of Nebraska Municipalities in Lincoln. The conference featured everything that makes a community a
good place to live--from vendors
who design swimming pools to those offering retirement planning for municipal
employees. There was also a booth from Nebraska Highway Safety with information about impaired driving,
and a booth from Click It--Don't Risk It! about the Click It Honor Roll. As you know,the Click It
Honor Roll is eliminating the standard level, and both observations must now be
at 90%!
Any group can achieve this wonderful honor--from Girl Scout Troops to
businesses, church groups to whole communities. LARM is leading by example and has encouraged the following three Nebraska communities to achieve Honor Roll status; Gretna, LaVista, and Pilger. These
names were prominently featured on the Click It display booth at the conference! Thanks to LARM and Bob Perry for
working with these communities to inspire Honor Roll observations.
Encourage your community to go for Honor Roll gold!
read more about the League Association of Risk Management
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The "Click It Chronicle," our Click It Campaign e-letter, published whenever there is news, is available to all those interested in increasing safety belt usage. Please share this information freely. Take the information, copy to friends, businesses and organizations with the same concerns. Using the information provided will help reduce the needless fatalities and injuries on our highways and the associated costs. To subscribe to this e-letter, join the coalition, or be removed from the list, contact the Click It Team at cidri@safenebraska.org. |
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