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puimc awareiwss ui mifio oiiu w piv mote safety and health issues.
One focus of EMS Week this year is the effort to encourage the use of safety belts through public awareness of Virginia’s mandatory use law that will take effect Jan. 1,1988.
It is the EMS providers who must treat the initial effects of an unrestrained victim of an automobile ' accident. Who better to underscore the importance of safety belt use than those who see the carnage wrought on those who choose not to “buckle up”?
Highway-related injuries result
in about 45,000 fatalities a year in the U.S., or about 90 percent of all transport fatalities including air or rail. In Virginia each day more than 195 people are injured on our highways and at least two people will die from auto crashes. One out of every 16 Virginia drivers will be involved in a crash, most occurring within 25 miles from home at speeds of 15 mph or less, according to EMS statistics.
Highway injuries produce more paraplegics and quadraplegics each year in the U.S. than all other
77.5%