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The Local Police of Cartagena carries out, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Traffic, from the 1st to the 7th October, a Campaign for the surveillance and control of safety belts and child restraint systems.
With this campaign, all drivers and passengers will be made aware that the safety belt is a basic and fundamental element of road safety and halves the risk of death in the event of an accident.
Not wearing the safety belt is, along with speed and driving under the influence of alcohol, one of the main risk factors on the road.
Although the use of the safety belt has increased, there are still serious gaps.
This is difficult to understand if we consider the relationship between simplicity of use and its effectiveness, since it halves the risk of death in the event of an accident.
In recent years there has been a stable trend of 25% of fatalities in traffic accidents that did not use the belt or SRI with respect to the total registered.
The occupants of a vehicle move at the same speed as that vehicle and in case of braking, the vehicle stops, but the occupants move.
A collision at 50 km / h is equivalent to falling from a second floor.
Not using the belt in the rear seats is a big risk.
In a frontal impact, the probability of a rear seat occupant fatally striking another passenger in the front seats can be up to eight times greater.
The use of approved child restraint systems (SRI) and safety belt has been demonstrated as the simplest, most cost-effective and effective road safety system in all types of routes and routes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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