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In states where rear passengers are obligated by law to buckle up, surveyors found that men wore seatbelts 14.3 percent of the time and women wore then 18.4 percent of the time. In states with no rear passenger seatbelt law, men buckled up only 9.6 percent of the time, while women did 16.3 percent of the time.
The most commonly used excuses for not buckling up included forgetting to use the belt, cited by 63.2 percent of respondees, while others said they didn’t feel a buckled belt was necessary, didn’t know there was a seatbelt law or felt safe without one.
[Source: via Wired Autopia]