Personal Injury Law

Obese Are Not Wearing Seat Belts in Auto Accidents

By Eddie Farah

Often we write here about a person's failure to wear a seat belt as being a contributing factor to injury.

It's tough to figure out why people wouldn't wear a seat belt knowing your chance of surviving an auto accident is greatly increased. A new study sheds some light on that.

Vanderbilt University researchers say some of you aren't wearing seat belts because not all carmakers are making them big enough to be comfortable. Seat belt use actually declines as girth increases.

The standard is supposed to be that a 215 pound man be accomodated by a seat belt. But that standard hasn't changed for four decades and people have just gotten bigger during that time.

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).