Driving, Seat Belt | featured news

Drivers and passengers in the 21st century have heeded the call to "buckle up." Seat belt use in 2012 reached a high of 86%, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's annual survey says.

Nearly six in seven U.S. adults now wear seat belts, an increase in driver safety that health officials say has helped cut motor vehicle deaths ...

States are moving to close a deadly gap in seat belt laws that allows rear-seat, adult passengers in half the states to ride legally without ...