Fasten your seat belt!

About 26% of those who answered the question use seat belts in both the driver's and passenger's seats. This result is frighteningly small - the police are worried.

These results were prepared on the basis of a survey conducted among Internet users. About 26% of those who answered the question use seat belts in both the driver's and passenger's seats. This result is frighteningly small - the police are worried.

Check Before You Go

A modern car is designed to provide the driver and passengers with maximum safety. However, this is guaranteed by the correct use of all its elements. If our car has an airbag and we are driving without seat belts - in a collision, the forces acting on our body cause huge accelerations - a deploying airbag will not only not keep us safe, but can even lead to serious injuries.

Studies in Europe have shown that seat belts reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries in a crash by as much as 50%. If everyone used seat belts, more than 7 lives could be saved each year. Only in Poland thanks to belts it would be possible to save the lives of about 000 victims of accidents every year, and ten times more people would avoid disability.

Safe Woman

The observation made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Board is that women wear seat belts more often than men, regardless of their position in the vehicle. Seat belts are most often used by the elderly and children. Young people use belts the least. Combined with risky and too fast driving, it is this group of people that causes two-thirds of accidents. “Since I saw the accident, I always wear my seat belts,” Martha wrote on an Internet forum. Unfortunately, many of us say that there is absolutely no need for seat belts that restrict our movements while driving.