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"Say, could you give me a hand??"

"I seem to have lost mine!"
Now, seriously, folks... those seat belts save lives!! I can assure you, they do!! This individual was not wearing hers. Statistics show that 97% of all ejection victims are fatalities!
Here are the real factors
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- Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for every age from six through twenty- eight. Almost half of these crashes are alcohol-related. (NHTSA, 1995)
- Of the 40,676 traffic fatalities in 1994, 13,094 or 32.2% were killed in crashes in which at least one driver or pedestrian was intoxicated. (NHTSA, 1995)
- Approximately 19.3% of all drivers involved in fatal crashes in 1994 were intoxicated at the time of their (21% in 1993). (NHTSA, 1995)
- In single-vehicle fatal crashes occurring on weekend nights in 1994, 72.3% of the fatally injured drivers 25 years old or older were intoxicated, as compared with 57.7% of drivers under the age of 25. (NHTSA, 1995)
- It is estimated that 2.2 million drunk driving crashes each year victimize 1.3 million innocent people who are injured or have their vehicles damaged. (Miller, 1994)
- In 1990, one in 100 drivers had a BAC of .10 or greater. About 21 billion miles were driven drunk. (Miller, 1994)
- The proportion of fatal crashes that are alcohol-related is three and one-half times higher at night than during the day. (NHTSA,1995)
- More than half of all alcohol-related fatalities occur in single vehicle crashes. (NHTSA, 1994)
- In fatal crashes, the proportion of drivers who were intoxicated (blood alcohol content of .10 or greater) decreased from 27.3% in 1984 to 19.3% in 1994, a 29% decrease in that proportion. (NHTSA, 1995)
- The number of intoxicated drivers killed in traffic crashes decreased from 10,825 in 1982 to 7,281 in 1994, a reduction of
33%. (NHTSA, 1995)
- Male drivers involved in fatal crashes were nearly twice as likely to have been intoxicated (21.9%) than were females (11.1%). (NHTSA, 1995)