{"id":159069,"date":"2022-10-14T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=159069"},"modified":"2022-10-17T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:29:13","slug":"seat-belt-use-credited-for-saving-three-paulding-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/10\/14\/seat-belt-use-credited-for-saving-three-paulding-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Seat belts save three Paulding residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAULDING \u2013 Paulding residents Faith Bauer, Lillian Bauer, and Evalynn Brooks have joined Ohio\u2019s \u201cSaved by the Belt\u201d Club after their safety restraints saved them from sustaining life-threatening injuries from a crash which occurred on County Road 144 at County Road 71 in Paulding County on August 4, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Kevin Krill presented the trio with the \u201cSaved by the Belt\u201d certificate signed by Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Thomas J. Stickrath and Colonel Charles A. Jones, Patrol superintendent. They also received a \u201cSaved by the Belt\u201d license plate bracket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Saved-by-the-Belt-10-14-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159070\"\/><figcaption>Trooper Kevin Krill of the Van Wert Patrol Post presents Lillian, Evalynn and Faith Bauer with Saved by the Belt certificates. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese three young ladies are a living testimony to the effectiveness of safety belts and child safety seats,\u201d Lieutenant Timothy P. Grigsby, Van Wert Post commander said. \u201cEveryone needs to buckle up every trip, every time. A horrific tragedy was avoided because of the few precious seconds Ms. Bauer took to ensure that everyone was properly buckled up before driving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provisional data from 2021 shows 565 people in Ohio were killed in traffic crashes where a safety belt was available, but not in use. For up-to-date statistics and information on seat belts, log onto the Patrol\u2019s Seatbelt Dashboard at <a href=\"https:\/\/SeatBeltDashboard.ohio.gov\">www.SeatBeltDashboard.ohio.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cSaved by the Belt\u201d Club is a joint effort by the Ohio Department of Public Safety and more than 400 Ohio law enforcement agencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information PAULDING \u2013 Paulding residents Faith Bauer, Lillian Bauer, and Evalynn Brooks have joined Ohio\u2019s \u201cSaved by the Belt\u201d Club after their safety restraints saved them from sustaining life-threatening injuries from a crash which occurred on County Road 144 at County Road 71 in Paulding County on August 4, 2022. Ohio State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-09 10:31:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159069"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159127,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159069\/revisions\/159127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}