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ARRIVE ALIVE…
Buckling up is the simplest way to save your child’s life – and not insisting on the wearing of seatbelts is “a form of neglect”, said trauma doctors and traffic officials recently.
“Studies in the United States have shown that wearing seatbelts could have prevented 75 per cent of injuries in children under the age of four, and 50 per cent in children aged four to 12,” said the head of the emergency and trauma unit at St Dominic’s Hospital, Dr Jeanne-Marie van der Westhuizen.
“We are failing our children by not enforcing the law that is there, by not using common sense and by not teaching our children to buckle up.”
A chief traffic officer confirmed that it was compulsory for passengers and drivers to wear seatbelts in terms of Regulation 213(4)of the National Road Traffic Regulations, under the National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No 93 of 1996). Cognisance should…
