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Avenue of the Giants Weekend Run - Sat. March 23, 2024

Saturday will be a very full day of cruising from Novato up through the Avenue of the Giants and ending at Eel River Brewing in Fortuna. Sun...

Most Don't Buckle Up In The Backseat

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Never understood why passengers don't buckle up. After all unbuckled passengers can become missiles. However, a new survey by LeaseTrader.com found that fewer than 20 percent of rear seat passengers fasten their safety belts. Here are some of the schocking results from this study:
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]