Tougher Seat Belt Law Saves Lives: Study

By Steve Tuckey

NU Online News Service, Jan. 19, 12:19 p.m. EST?An analysis of federal crash data by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety concluded that fatality rates in nine states and the District of Columbia fell by an estimated 7 percent when they adopted more stringent seat belt laws sometime between 1989 and 2003.[@@]

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