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Fast Facts
- Traffic Crashes kill over 42,500 people a year. They are the #1 cause of child deaths.
- Every 11 seconds someone in America is injured in a traffic accident and every 12 minutes someone is killed.
- Half of the drivers and passengers killed in traffic accidents are not buckled up.
- Every day in America, around 700 children are injured and seven are killed in automobile accidents.
- Every day, an unrestrained child under the age of five is killed in a traffic accident.
- There were 3,675 traffic fatalities in Texas in 2003. Only 49% were using safety restraints. Your chances of surviving a crash increase by 65% when using seat belts.
- The cost of traffic crashes to all of us, as a society, is 230 Billion Dollars every year.
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