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Donny Schatz knows the importance of wearing a seat-belt, not only in his racecar, but in every vehicle. Click It or Ticket is the most successful seat belt enforcement campaign ever, helping create the highest national seat belt usage rate of 82 percent. Donny wants to help spread the message about wearing seat-belts every time you get into a vehicle. Join the two-time World of Outlaws Sprint car champion and buckle up every time you get into a vehicle and encourage others to do the same.

Below are some facts about seat-belt usage from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

  •    Regular seat belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes.

•    When worn correctly, seat belts have proven to reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passenger car occupants by 45 percent – and by 60 percent in pickup trucks, SUVs and mini-vans.

•    Nearly one in five Americans (19 percent nationally) still fail to regularly wear their seat belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle.


•    Men – especially younger men – are much less likely to buckle up. In 2005, 67 percent of male drivers and 74 percent of male passengers between the ages of 18 and 34 in passenger vehicles who were killed in crashes were NOT wearing their seat belts.

•    According to NHTSA, pickup truck drivers and passengers, particularly among young males, consistently have the lowest seat belt usage rates of all motorists.

•    In 2006, the observed seat belt use rate in pickup trucks was only 74 percent compared to 82 percent in passenger cars and 84 percent in vans and SUVs.

•    This lack of seat belt use is deadly. In 2005, 68 percent of pickup truck drivers and 71 percent of pickup truck passengers who were killed in traffic crashes were not buckled up.

•    One of the deadliest outcomes in any vehicle crash occurs when passengers get ejected from the vehicle – with most ejections coming from failure to wear seat belts.

•    In fact, 75 percent of passenger vehicle occupants who were totally ejected from their vehicle in 2005 were killed.  But only one in 100 drivers and passengers in fatal crashes who were wearing their seat belts were totally ejected.

•    Motorists can increase the odds of survival in a rollover crash in a light truck by nearly       80 percent by wearing their seat belt.

•    During 2005, more than one in ten (or 12.6 percent) of all drivers involved in fatal crashes across the U.S. were drivers between the ages of 15 and 20.

•    An alarming 62 percent of teenage passenger vehicle occupants killed in fatal crashes during 2005 were NOT wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.