the following is a firefighter service
announcement seatbelt safety and
passenger vehicle rollover accidents
continues to be a problematic issue
among firefighters rollover accidents of
passenger vehicles account for two
percent of all crashes but these crashes
account for more than a third of
passenger vehicle fatalities in 2011 21
thousand three hundred and forty seven
passenger vehicle occupants died in
crashes of all kinds of those seven
thousand four hundred and twenty were
from rollovers rollovers are more common
in SUV's pickups 15 passenger vans and
other high center of gravity type of
vehicles like crew carriers of those
killed in the rollover accidents 64
percent were not wearing their seatbelt
of these fatalities 54 percent were
ejected from the vehicle seat belt use
reduces the risk of fatal injury by 73
percent for backseat passengers unbelted
passengers are a risk to others in the
vehicle in fact in an accident the risk
of injury or death to other passengers
increases by 40 percent the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
estimates that in 2011 seatbelts save
the lives of eleven thousand nine
hundred and forty nine people buckle up
it can save your life and likely helped
save the lives of those around you