Each year more than 500,000 of our children are injured in traffic accidents. Statistics vary from state to state, but in more than 70 percent of the fatalities, the victim was not wearing a seat belt. Some states indicate that seat belts can reduce death and injury by up to 60 percent. That's a lot of kids. There is no doubt.
Seat belts save lives.
Our daughter, Jessica, age sixteen at the time, was hit head-on by another driver. Accidents always happen when we least expect them. My brain recorded these thoughts in a millisecond. I decided to go straight, so that I wouldn't take the hit on my driver's side door. If I let the car hit me on the side, there might not be anything left of me.