Seat Belt Safety
Caroline:
February 2nd, 2007
Seat belt laws were first introduced over 20 years ago but a staggering 1 in 10 front seat passengers and drivers and 4 in 10 rear seat drivers still don’t bother wearing one. Tragically Francesca Lee-Platt learned the hard way that the law is there for a reason. She was only 18 when, despite repeated pleas from her mother to wear a seat belt, she chose not to and was killed after being thrown from a car in a head-on collision. Ironically she had already been fined for not belting up but only 6 hours after being stopped by the police she was dead. It is thought that the seat belt laws save 2000 lives a year - sadly Francesca’s was not one of them.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Francesca died as a result of a her so called “best friend” taking a wrong turn, that was clearly signposted “no right turn.” Would she have survived if wearing a seatbelt who knows? she would have survived if her best friend DIDN’T fail to comply with the lwas of the roads. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. RIP FRANCESCA
June 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Francesca died as a result of a her so called “best friend” taking a wrong turn, that was clearly signposted “no right turn.” Would she have survived if wearing a seatbelt who knows? she would have survived if her best friend DIDN’T fail to comply with the laws of the roads. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. RIP FRANCESCA