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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
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Subject: Seatbelts
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 00:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 00:21:00 1985
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Without taking a position on seatbelt laws (I am undecided about them
myself), I thought I would just pass on some interesting information from
todays New York Times (5/1, pg A1). New York State has had a seatbelt
law since the beginning of the year, and it's now reported that in the
first three months of the year, the number of drivers and passengers
killed in auto accidents dropped 27% from the same period of 1984
(down from 252 deaths to 184).

It seems that the seatbelt law, and possibly New York's campaign against
drunk driving, were responsible for this drop in deaths, since the number
of accidents and of pedestrian deaths, appeared to hold constant.

Isaac Dimitrovsky