When drivers aren't buckled, neither are children 76 percent of the time. Seat belts increase the chance of surviving a crash by nearly 45 percent. Child safety seats, properly installed, reduce the risk of death by 69 percent for infants and 47 percent for toddlers. Parents who don't buckle up are more likely to improperly place babies in the front seat, exposing them to serious risk of being injured or killed by an air bag. The majority of children who die in alcohol-related car crashes are killed not by an impaired driver who runs into them, but by the impaired adult who is transporting them.
Children riding with an impaired driver are much less likely to be buckled up.
More than 1.5 million drivers were arrested in 1997 for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Every 33 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related crash. Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes killed nearly 16,000 people in 1998 alone. National Safety Council. It is estimated based upon 1992 data that one out of every 280 babies born today will die in a crash with an intoxicated driver.