Each driver and front seat passenger of a motor vehicle operated on a street or highway in the State Of Illinois shall wear a properly adjusted and fastened Seat Safety Belt.
n Each driver under the age of 18 and each of that driver’s passengers under the age of 18 shall wear a properly adjusted and fastened Seat Safety Belt.
n Each driver transporting a child 6 years of age or more, but less than 16 years of age, in the front seat, shall secure the child in a properly adjust and fastened Seat Safety Belt.
n Learn about Hoffman Estates local seatbelt law
Seat Safety Belt guidelines while pregnant –
n Place the lap belt below your expanding abdomen, across your hips.
n Lay the shoulder belt diagonally between your breasts.
n Make sure that both the lap and shoulder belt restraints are as snug as possible without them being uncomfortable.
Factoids –
n Unbelted occupants account for 84% of impaired driving fatalities.
n 2005 is on track to record the lowest number of traffic fatalities since 1924.
n In 2003 Seat Safety Belts saved more than 14,900 lives in the United Sates.
n 63% of fatally injured 16-20 year old occupants were NOT wearing a Seat Safety Belt.
n 55% of adults 21 and older were fatally injured and were NOT wearing a Seat Safety Belt.
n Drivers should be seated a minimum of 10 inches from the steering wheel and Buckled up.
n You are 4 times more likely to be killed or injured if you are ejected from a vehicle involved in a crash.
n When you wear your Seat Safety Belt you increase your chance of avoiding death and injury up to 50 %.
n Occupants unbelted, but, with only airbag deployment are 6.7 times more likely to have a fractured spinal cord injury.
n You might be a great driver, but, those bad drivers cause the crashes that you might be involved in so Buckle Up.
n If Seat Safety Belt compliance rates increased by just 15%, then 112 deaths and 3,700 injuries would be prevented each year.
n Occupants who are unbelted with no airbag are 8 times more likely to have a fractured spinal cord injury then restrained occupants.
n It takes less than 3 seconds to buckle up, so even if you get in and out of your vehicle 20 times a day it takes less than 1 minute to Buckle Up.
n Jumping from a 5 story building and hitting the ground is the same force with which you would hit the windshield at 40 mph if you were not wearing a Seat Safety Belt.
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