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Issue: # 2010018July 16, 2010
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
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Florida Deaths Down
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I-80 keeps going when you go west out of Nebraska. When you cross the Nebraska state line going west, you enter Laramie County, Wyoming.  There are many similarities in the terrain between western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming, and there are similarities in each state's approach to safety belts.

This article in the Laramie Boomerang about a crash near the city of Laramie clearly illustrates the difference a safety belt can make.  One occupant was belted; the other was not.  The occupant wearing a safety belt suffered a broken leg and a punctured lung, and had a stay in the hospital.  The other occupant died.  Both experienced the same crash.

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The article also compares sleep-deprived drivers to drunk drivers.  Both types of drivers underline the need for a safety belt, every trip, every time.
Florida Deaths Down
The Ledger.com reported that Florida cut their traffic death toll by 400 last year from 2008, to an all-time low for them.

The difference in the numbers was directly due to more people wearing safety belts.  "The big reduction came about mainly as a result of the primary seat belt law, Florida Highway Patrol officials said."

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While other safety measures make a difference in the overall safety of the road, the single best protection an individual motorist can use is a safety belt. And while a primary law has been shown to increase safety belt usage, it can be increased without the law, as we have shown in Nebraska. 

Keep up the good work!  Include safety belt information in whatever you're doing
Honor Roll Congratulations!
Congratulations to Hyannis High School!

We received their application on June 25 for their surveys done in the spring.
 
Their first survey showed 90.63% and the second showed 94.2%.  Hyannis Sheriff Hebbert did both observations.  He was located at the same location both times, the entrance to the school off State Highway 2.

Hyannis is in Grant County, just south of Cherry County.  It's a very small town and the county is relatively sparsely populated.  Safety belts remain very important! 

Can your company or group's buckling rate compare with Hyannis High School? 




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.