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Show Motorists pledge safety "I pledge, for the next two weeks, to buckle-up, to protect children by placing plac-ing them in safety belts or child safety safe-ty seats, and to encourage my fellow passengers to get into the buckle-up habit." That's the "Make It Click-Drive Defensively" safety belt usage pledge, and you're encouraged to take it, said Robert Ingersoll, Managing Director of the Utah Safety Council. This year the Utah Safety Council is participating in the National Safety Council's "Make It Click-Drive Defensively" Defen-sively" campaign which runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Volunteers across the country will be asking their friends and neighbors to sign the pledge. "Hopefully, after persons see how easy it is to use the belts, they'll continue wearing them," Ingersoll said. According to the Utah Safety Council Coun-cil 14.000 to 18,000 lives could be saved sav-ed yearly if all passengers in motor-vehicles motor-vehicles wore safety belts at all times. Ingersoll said that safety belts are effective because they eliminate the "human collision" inside cars. "When your vehicle hits something, you as an occupant will continue moving inside the car after the car has stopped," he said, "then you'll have a second collision colli-sion either with someone in the car or with something else in the car." Some persons mistakenly believe it's better to be thrown from the car in an accident, he said. Being "thrown clear" often turns out to be thrown into in-to the path of an on-coming car, on to a cement street or against a telephone pole. "Statistics indicate that you are 25 times more likely to be killed if you're thrown from the vehicle," he said. |