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Archive for February 28th, 2007

There’s More to Safety than Seatbelts

Wednesday, 28 February, 2007

The numbers regarding automobile accidents in the United States are sobering. In 2005 there were 2.9 million injury cases and 42,636 deaths – accidents costing:
- $230.6 billion a year
- $7,300 per second
- $820 per U.S. citizen.
Amazingly, most people shopping for a new car still think that seatbelts and airbags are the primary safety mechanisms standing [...]