By backing seat belt laws and including seat belt violations in rate calculations, they helped save lives on the road.
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And always adjust the seat and mirrors, fasten your seat belt, tune the radio in to your favorite station and enter a navigation destination before you shift the transmission into drive.
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The new laws cover a variety of areas, from texting and tanning beds to human trafficking and seat-belt safety.
True, years of safety engineering and seat-belt-law enforcement have reduced road fatalities from 1.73 deaths per 100 million miles traveled in 1994 to 1.47 in 2005, but automakers think they can do better.
But if we are to succeed, we should understand: The campaign against obesity will have to look a lot less like the campaign against smoking (which involves just one decision, to smoke or not to smoke) and much more like the generation-long campaign against highway fatalities, which required the redesign of cars, the redesign of highways, and changes in personal behavior like seat-belt use and drunk driving.
Police said the pickup's driver, Paul Howard Shoulders, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from his truck.
You metaphorically strap yourself in with a seat-belt and say we're on air now.
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She doesn't have to ask for a seat belt extender and no longer feels like she's spilling into her neighbor's seat.
Her father, who wasn't wearing a seat belt, ricocheted off Gisela and into the dashboard.
On Wednesday, Dr Perlin, the leading DNA forensic witness for the Crown, said he had compared DNA data taken from items in the getaway car used in the attack with the DNA from the accused and found that samples on a seat belt buckle were almost six trillion times more likely to have come from Mr Duffy than any other person.
Authorities found that the vehicle appeared to be overloaded, and that no one was wearing a seat belt, the affiliate said.
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But America is, by definition, an alliance of ecosystems, and some regulations of road travel (like seat-belt rules) are administered state by state.
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It saw a number of people charged with careless driving, speeding, seat belt offences, using a mobile phone while driving and drink driving.
Every child will have a seat belt, each child will have a designated seat and the bus will only be carrying pupils back and forth from school, with no other passengers or routes.
There are a number of other sensible provisions, such as allowing the jury, when it is determining fault and cause, to know whether the plaintiff was wearing a seat belt at the time of a vehicular accident.
We have hands-free telephones, voice-activated controls, xenon headlights and four-wheel steering to make towing easier, and I've just heard of rear-seat air bags built into the seat belt.
Much like squawking seat belt systems, the app is designed to remind drivers of their wrongdoing and doesn't stop the ruckus until they acknowledge it.
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