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Blog 2016 September Use Your Seat Belt And Other Ways To Avoid A Serious Personal Injury In A Crash
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Use Your Seat Belt And Other Ways To Avoid A Serious Personal Injury In A Crash

Posted By Odegaard Braukmann Law, PLLC || 23-Sep-2016

Recently, a primary seat belt law was proposed during a legislative meeting in our state. The law would allow for drivers to be pulled over specifically for not wearing their seat belts. Currently, only 77 percent of Montanans buckle-up. This is much lower than the national average of 88 percent and significantly less than Texas, Washington, and Oregon, where fines ranging from $110 to $200 likely play a part in about 94 percent of people buckling up. Similar bills were proposed in Montana in 2011 and 2013, but they did not pass. Whether the primary seat belt law goes through or not, there are several things you can do to help prevent anyone in your family from suffering a personal injury in a vehicle accident.

One of the most important things you can do is to wear a seat belt. Even though it is not currently a primary enforced law, it is still the law to wear a seat belt, and it is a great way to protect yourself in a crash. Seventy-one percent of those killed in automobile accidents in Montana in 2014 were not wearing their seat belts.

Along with buckling up, it is important for young children to be properly placed in car seats or booster seats. According to Montana law, all children under six years old or who weigh less than 60 pounds should be placed in a federally-approved safety seat or booster seat.

Another important step is to maintain a safe speed. This does not always mean going the speed limit. As the weather gets colder, the roads will get snowy and icy. A safe speed may be several miles below the speed limit.

It is also important to be an attentive driver. Seeing a potential hazard, including another vehicle, will allow you to slow down or get out of the way. This can help you avoid a head-on collision, a crash with a vehicle cutting in front of you, and many other potential crashes.

Overall, avoiding a crash is often about just working to be a safe driver. Unfortunately, you cannot control the actions of the other drivers on the road, and they sometimes cause crashes, some of them resulting in serious injury, even when you were being a safe driver. If you were injured in a vehicle accident caused by another driver, contact us.

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