Accident Scene Safety

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Accident Scene Safety

• Module 1 Vehicle Safety
• Section 1 - Driving Safety

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Driving Safety
LIVES SAVED BY RESTRAINTS
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Driving Safety

• A person is injured
• every 10 seconds
• and killed
• every 12 minutes
• in a motor vehicle crash
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Driving Safety

• Traffic collisions are the leading cause of death
  from ages 3 to 33
• Over 43,000 people die annually on US roads.
• Almost 3,000,000 people are injured annually

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Driving Safety

• Over 10,000 fatalities are the result of
  rollovers.
• Over 8,500 fatalities are the result of frontal
  offset crashes.
• Over 2,000 deaths and 950,000 injuries are the
  result of rear end collisions.
• Over 4,900 fatalities and 60,000 injuries are the
  result of passenger vehicles colliding with heavy
  trucks.

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Driving Safety

• Seat Belts
• Reduce fatalities 45
• Reduce serious injury 50
• Prevent 11,000 deaths per year
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Driving Safety

• Over 3 Million Airbag Deployments
• Frontal Crashes
• 31 Reduction in Drivers Deaths
• 27 Reduction in Passenger Deaths

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• Deaths Caused by Airbags
• Children in Child Seats 15
• Children Without Child Seat 51
• Adult Drivers 42
• Adult Passengers 5
• Proximity to Airbag is the Leading Factor

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25 of all vehicle occupant injuries result from
side-impact collisions 33 of all serious and
fatal injuries are from these T-bone crashes.
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Driving Safety

• Side Airbags
• With Head Protection
• 45 Reduction in Death
• Without Head Protection
• 10 Reduction in Death

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Driving Safety

• 19,000 Occupants Killed Annually
• 234,000 Occupants Injured
• WITHOUT SEAT BELTS
• Economic Effect
• 230.6 Billion

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