Deaths Drop 27% After N.Y. Seat Belt Law
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. —
Deaths among vehicle occupants declined 27% during the first three months of New York’s first-in-the-nation mandatory seat belt law, state Motor Vehicles Commissioner John Passidomo reported Tuesday.
Passidomo credited the drop in fatalities to the state’s new seat belt law. Preliminary figures indicate that during the first quarter of 1985, 184 vehicle occupants died on the state’s roads, contrasted with 252 during the first three months of 1984.
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