The Seatbelt act is officially the most violated road rule in the Philippines
The Seat Belts Use of Act states that the driver and passengers both rear and front passengers of private and public vehicles are required to use and wear their seat belts every time they're inside a car with the running engine on any street, road, and highway.
Even though it is stereotypical for Filipinos not to follow rules, there's truth to it as there are numerous cases wherein we don't use seatbelts. In 2010, 19.58% of injured car occupants were wearing a seat belt at the time of the road crash. In 2016, though, that figure dropped to 2.91% according to the Department of Health's Online National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (ONEISS) show.
Seatbelts are the most effective road safety device ever invented as seat belt distributes the force of a crash to some of the strongest parts of the body, the chest. and pelvis. It keeps car occupants from being thrown against the interior of the car, such as the windscreen or dashboard, restrains passengers from hitting other car occupants, and keeps them from being ejected from the car.
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