Before you decide against clicking your seatbelt, consider the consequences of foregoing the belt.  Putting on your seat belt can do more than prevent a ticker; it can save your life.  Increase your risk of surviving a crash by 60% by simply taking a couple seconds to buckle up.  Willow Grove area Toyota wants to remind drivers about PA seat belt laws and the dangers of failing to click it.

 

PA Seat Belt Statistics

According to the PA Department of Transportation, in 2011 57% of people killed in car crashes were not wearing seat belts.  The number of people who were not wearing seatbelts when involved in an accident made up 8% of the 125,395 crashes reported in PA.  Fortunately, the number of deaths reported in 2011 was the 2^nd lowest number in PA crashes over 68 years. A driver and a passenger can be killed in a car accident, even if the car is going as slow as 12 mph.

 

PA Seat Belt Requirements

You must buckle up when o get behind the wheel.  As a driver, you are responsible for children under the age of 18 who are not buckled up.

• The driver and front seat passenger are required to wear seat belts, and a ticket will be issued if the driver is pulled over for a primary offense.
• Children between the ages of 8 and 18 must wear a seat belt.  Drivers may be fine $10 per unrestrained child plus court fees.
• Children between 4 and 8 years of age are required to be in a booster seat.  If not, the driver can be fined $75 plus court fees.
• Teen drivers under the age of 18 are forbidden from transporting more people than the number of seat belts available in the car.

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