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Issue: # 2011007
March 14, 2011
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
In This Issue
Bridgestone Safety Scholarships
Police Job Safety Includes Safety Belts:...Every Trip, Every Time
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Greetings!
We've all read and seen enough sad stories about crashes to know that safety belts can make all the difference.  Unfortunately though, 1 in 7 adults in Nebraska still do not buckle up, and worse, I still have people tell me about their uncle's neighbor or whoever who "would have been killed if he was wearing a belt". 

Here's a news story from Minnesota that answers some of those objections, and makes the point that modern cars are designed to have belted occupants.  Even though not every crash is survivable, a vehicle occupant's odds are better if they are belted.  Check out this video clip.  Spread the word at your next health fair that modern cars are designed to protect occupants in a crash, but only if they're belted in place.  Take a hint from this news story--wearing a belt gives a vehicle occupant "room to live". 
Bridgestone Safety Scholarships

There are a variety of contests out there for safety videos.  The Bridgestone website offers another. The Bridgestone contest will be accepting entries Bridgestone

from March 23-May 13, and the winner receives a $5,000 college scholarship, plus a new set of tires!  

 

Full information is on their website. 

 

In the meantime, check out this funny video from last year's Bridgestone contest.  He's not kidding about buckling up.   And the winners tab brings you a variety of videos that were submitted.  


Police Job Safety Includes Safety Belts:

Every Trip, Every Time 

According to a January article in USA Today, "At least 42% of police officers killed in vehicle crashes over the past three decades were not wearing seat belts or other safety restraints, according to a federal review."    

And according to the February 2011 issues of Police Magazine, "There are two things that can be done to immediately make your job safer."  One of those things is wearing a safety belt.   

So, in the potentially dangerous profession of law enforcement, safety belts are among the top recommendations for making those jobs safer.  That holds true for every job, and for any time you are riding in a car.  

Spread the word! and check into whether your local law enforcement personnel are wearing their safety belts!  Let's keep them safe both on and off the job.     
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.