The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says traffic fatalities dropped by 29 percent between 2007 and 2013. Lt. Col. John LeBlanc, the commission’s executive director, said the state had 993 traffic fatalities in 2007, compared with 703 in 2013, a drop …
More Kansas drivers have been buckling up, but scores of citations are still being issued to drivers in the state who aren’t wearing their seatbelts. Dave Corp, law enforcement liaison for the Kansas Department of Transportation, says seatbelt usage has …
New data from the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety shows the observed belt usage rate is at 74.4 percent. That’s compared to 83 percent in 2012, officials said Tuesday in a news release. Fatalities also increased last year. In 2013, …
State officials say seatbelt use in Delaware has increased to 92 percent this year. The Office of Highway Safety said Friday that last year’s seatbelt use rate was 88 percent statewide. Officials say the national rate in 2012 was 86 …
Motorists and passengers in rural Virginia are less likely to wear seatbelts than those in other parts of the state, statewide surveys show. They also are more at risk of dying in traffic accidents, according to analysis of state data …