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Joseph Kasongo
Eng. 1010

Dr. Jeffrey green well

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Seat belt
Seat belt saves lives in many different ways of accident. Wearing a seat belt while
driving a car can protect you from being thrown away from vehicle. The more you wear seatbelt,
the more likely you are to survive because people who dont wear seat belts are four times more
likely to be thrown out in the vehicle than those remains in the vehicle. Seat belts protect humans
when accident happen, you wont be killed but injured. Wearing seatbelts helps our society to
decrease death and stress in our nations. Seat belts are being demonstrated nationwide so that
teenager and young ones and older people can all follow the use of it.
Appropriate seatbelt use is among effective means of reducing
fetal and serious injuries to vehicle drivers and passengers during motor vehicle crushes.
Road traffic collisions are the leading cause of death, killing yearly more than 1.2
million people worldwide half of them between the age of 15 and 14. This is the most
risk factor for death and serious injury in a car crash due to peoples failure to use, proper
seat, a size appropriate restraint system.( Devin, maharaj). Appropriate seat belt can help

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our society decrease the death because by wearing seat belt while driving, it helps people
to live life longer.
As a driver you should drive with cautious because you are responsible about
anything that can happen while driving. As a driver you need to have three things while
driving and this are respect, love and careless. With respect, you need to respect traffic
rules which are light, stop sign and speed limits. As a driver if you are driving makes sure
that you are responsible to know and see what should be done and what should not be
done. Another thing is you should do as driver to make sure you respect pedestrians who
are walking or riding the bikes.
With love is that you are driving and knowing that you are not alone in the road
that you have a lot of people and each and every one running different places and
different problems. You dont plan about driving to pass someone so you get early where
you are heading. You have got to feel the pain that car can harm you at any time if you
dont drive with caution. Also stop panicking or stress out because these things can put
you or someone into a big crash.
With careless if that driving and caring for your friend who is asking for the way.
You dont drive and I dont or wont give chance to anyone in case of construction. Care
for other drivers is very important to a driver because that shows that you can protect
someone with in case of accidents. All this things I have talked about need to happen
with the seat belt on. You cannot care for other drivers if you are not in seat belt because
you might get rejected outside the car. Seat belt can save your life 20 times than someone
who is not wearing a seat belt have 20 times chance to die while driving.

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We value our lives and nobody would or want to die early when its not their time
to. Also with teens who drives with loud music and so on. Parents or the police
department should work on reducing the total number of death from the teens that are
driving with no seat belt on. Parents can also help with their kids to know the importance
of wearing a seatbelt while operating with the motor vehicle. A lot of people do not know
the impact of wearing a seat belt whereas me who has been into the accident when I was
a teenager and I were really dangerous. As teenager on our way going to the movie
theater with my friends playing loud music, end up flipped over with car, I learned a lot
because I lose two my friends who were wearing a seat belt. I can witness the good thing
about seat belt and how it can save your life because I have been through.
Theres a lot of the advertisement that we see or watch that tells us more about
wearing a seat belt. This tells me that death is something that we or everyone has to stay
far even though you do not know when it can come. No one wants to die in the car
accident because that a lot of pain. A was reading the online articles, I found out that
driving with seat belt is on the most important and safety thing in anyone who operates
the motor vehicle. We all deserve our lives and we really need it and with that only when
we stay out trouble by following and obeying the traffic rules. Since I have been in a lot
of accident and did not die, I thank to my god and appreciate and I can be able to help
others who do not put seat belt or know the impact of it.

"The tragic school-bus accident in Alabama this week is bringing to the fore an ongoing and
passionate debate about whether the nation's school buses should be required to have seat belts."
This article presents the debate surrounding seat belts on school buses, noting that "Advocates of

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safety belts on the ubiquitous yellow buses say this accident is proof that the nation is failing to
properly protect its children by not requiring buses to have seat belts something required of the
family car. Opponents say that the buses' current design--with high, padded seat backs and
emergency exits--are safe enough, and that certain types of seat belts, like a simple lap belt,
could even be harmful." (Marks, Alexandra 42). Children have to wear safety when they are in a
car so that they will not be in danger. Child restraint should be used every time that driving a car.
Drivers should provide a safe place for children in the bus.

Every bus driver should at least check their students if there are in safety when they are in
the school bus. As a bus driver you must check and control if children are in a proper seat
because in case of an accident if children are in a safe proper seatbelt, it can be safe for children.
Children dont know or care when it comes to proper safety. Adult should check and make sure
children are in safety when they are in a car. Wearing proper seat in the bus can help young
children and young generation to know the importance of car safety. Parent as well should teach
their kids the Importance of seat belt that every time if they are in a car, they have to wear a
proper seat or else they should know that they are not in safe with state law.

"If you ask parents today [2008] how they got their baby home from the hospital, they'll tell you
in an infant car seat. If you ask those parents how they got home from the hospital when they
were born, they'll probably tell you in their mother's arms in the front seat of the family car. A lot
has changed in the past 30 years regarding child passenger safety. Kids today can expect to ride
in a car seat or booster seat into their elementary school years. And in most states it's the law.

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But that wasn't always the case. In 1977 not one state required child passengers to ride in any
type of restraint, let alone specified the type of car seat they were required to be in. That changed
in 1978 when the first law requiring children under age 4 to ride in a car seat went into effect in
Tennessee."(Savage, Melissa, and Teigen). Every parent should protect their new born babies in a
car seat because if a car end up in a crush while the new born baby he/ her is in a car, it is not
going to be safe. At least every driver knows that when he or she driving a car, the passenger or
anybody in car including kids should wear a seat belt or child restraint. It the matter of time and
busy that keeps us in hurry to forget to provide a safety seat in a car for our young kids and
young ones.
By proving safety place in a car for newborns, then you can drive home safely
without worrying of anything; and in case of cops pulled you will be safe instead. Child
restraint nowadays and compare years ago, it has changed more and more to our
technologies in America. America has provide baby seat so that parents and people
cannot fall apart or blame on any reason of carrying a new born baby in hands from the
hospital to home. For example and this is real in were I came from, to some part of
Africa they carry a newborn baby in hands covered with blankets because they dont use
or I would say they dont have the child car restraint for some reason to the most
African especially where I grew up. It is really fantastic that America has safety for the
newborns baby car seat and child restraint so that children kids can rest up with happy
and safe when driving them home.
We can also help a person who thinks this is not true that safety can help you in terms of
accident you wont be thrown out of the car. In driving there is no master another word there is
no any good or bad when it comes to driving. It is not good for people or as a human to face to

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this issue of not using safety and get in an accident and you gets thrown away from a car. Some
Kids dont know the usefulness or the importance of seat belt when they are driving with their
parents but we can help those kids to understand the importance of safety by teaching them. As
an adult we can teach kids and make them to wear seatbelt every time they get in a car. We
should also teach kids as they grow that car safety is very important every time you are in a car.
We can also remind ourselves from our mistakes and from what we always have or experience
when driving so that we can learn from our ,mistakes and teach our kids as same as to ourselves.

work cited
Savage, Melissa, and Anne Teigen. "Most Precious Cargo." State Legislatures Vol. 34, No. 3. March 2008:
32-33. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 06 May 2013

Bowles, Scott. "School Buses to Try Safety Bars." USA TODAY. Feb. 19 2001: 3A. SIRS Issues Researcher.
Web. 06 May 2013.

Levin, Myron, and Davan Maharaj. "Proven Safety Features Not Used on Many Tires." Los Angeles
Times (Los Angeles, CA). Dec. 18 2000: A1+. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 06 May
2013.