A standard primary enforcement law raises compliance by 12 to 15 percent on average. The governor also pointed out that safety belts reduce the risk of fatal injury to front seat passenger occupants by 45 percent and the risk of injury by 55 percent. With a mandatory safety belt law, we will hopefully be able to reach these people in order to lessen that risk. The bottom line is that by making safety belt use mandatory, we will be able to save more lives on our roads and highways. Through the participation and support of state, county, and local law enforcement agencies, along with local business leaders, the Ohio State Highway Patrol has undertaken a program to prevent or deter the national problem from permeating our roadways.
Road rage is defined as driving behavior that endangers or is likely to endanger people or property.
Incidents of highway violence are growing at an alarming rate, according to a national AAA study, with road-related violence jumping 51 percent from 1990 to 1995, resulting in 218 deaths and 12,610 injuries. Together we can save lives. Let's make it happen. According to Senate Bill 98, the State Board of Emergency Medical Services shall establish a trauma system registry to collect and analyze data necessary to evaluate the delivery of trauma care within the state. The Ohio Department of Public Safety will provide software that contains 76 data categories to the 80 percent of the hospitals that don't already have their own registries.