Ninety per cent of students polled said they have been in a car with someone who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and 75 per cent reported not wearing a seatbelt themselves.
July 5 marks National Injury Prevention Day , and London Health Sciences Centre has chosen its theme for this year: seatbelts.
In a poll done by LHSC for its Impact Program, students from grades 9-12 were asked about their seatbelt use from January to June. Ninety per cent of those polled said they had been in a car with someone who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and 75 per cent reported not wearing a seatbelt themselves. The reasons included simply forgetting and only travelling a short distance.
To share the importance of wearing a seatbelt, one family is coming forward to share their story in hopes of saving even one life. The Mitchell family was involved in a serious car crash on Feb. 25, 2023.“Although our story is very tragic, it could have been worse if the children didn’t have their seatbelts on,” Jessica Mitchell says.
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