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From: lspirkov@udenva.UUCP (Goldilocks)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Seatbelts
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 11:44:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 11:44:26 1985
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In article <> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>
>>/* dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) / 12:21 am  May  2, 1985 */
>[]
>>
>>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
>

i just came back from NY.  most of the people that i saw
on the road had their seatbelts on.  even my parents wear
theirs (and they used to hate them).

-- 

					Goldi

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