Front Seat Passengers At Risk From Unbelted Back Seat Riders
NADA and the National Air Bag & Seat Belt Safety Campaign, which are working to enact primary seat belt laws in every state to save more lives, offer the following advice for dealers hosting seat belt safety events: Emphasize that it’s not just drivers and babies who need to be belted. A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated how any unbelted passenger can be a threat to the other passengers:
àIn a crash, another occupant could be killed if struck by a passenger who was catapulted forward, backward or sideways.
àThe risk of death to a belted passenger in the front seat rose 20 percent when a back seat passenger was unbelted.
àAn estimated one in six deaths of front seat passengers wearing a seat belt might have been prevented if the back seat passenger had worn a seat belt.
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