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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Seatbelts
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 00:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 00:37:00 1985
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>/* dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) / 12:21 am  May  2, 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.
>

Assuming, of course, a significantly greater number of people are wearing
them than before.

					Michael Sykora

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