{"id":17330,"date":"2011-12-07T04:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2011-12-07T04:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T09:50:39","slug":"patrol-wearing-safety-belts-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/12\/07\/patrol-wearing-safety-belts-saves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrol: Wearing safety belts saves lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent\/<\/strong><em>OSHP information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is simply no disputing that wearing a safety belt can save your life. That is why the Ohio State Highway Patrol is encouraging all motorists to buckle up this holiday season and continue to do so throughout the New Year. Last year more than 60 percent of the people killed on Ohio\u2019s roadways were not wearing a safety belt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/osplogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" \/>\u201cIt\u2019s simple &#8212; safety belts save lives and reduce injury in crashes,\u201d said Lt. Ray Haas, commander of the Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post. \u201cIt is the easiest thing you can do to protect yourself, your family and your friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, safety belts save over 13,000 lives every year and remain the single most effective thing people can do to protect themselves in a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing to wear a safety belt is a personal choice and Ohio\u2019s safety belt compliance rate indicates that motorists are doing so more now than ever.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ohio\u2019s 2010 Observational Seatbelt Survey, 83.8 percent of motorists were found to be in compliance with Ohio\u2019s safety belt law. This is a significant increase from the 72.9 percent observed in 2002. While these rates have steadily increased, far too many Ohioans still do not buckle up.\u00a0 In 2010, 467 of the people killed on Ohio\u2019s roadways were not wearing an available safety belt.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s safety belt law remains a secondary violation, however troopers continue zero tolerance enforcement when motorists are stopped for other violations and are found not be wearing their belt.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers ask that Ohio motorists wear their safety belt every time and insist that those who travel with them buckle up as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/OSHP information There is simply no disputing that wearing a safety belt can save your life. That is why the Ohio State Highway Patrol is encouraging all motorists to buckle up this holiday season and continue to do so throughout the New Year. Last year more than 60 percent of the people killed [&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-17330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 15:47:29","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\/17330","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=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}