Seat belt use drops to a nearly 20-year low in Ohio, study says

The statewide seat belt compliance rate fell from about 84% in 2021 to less than 81% last year, according to an annual observational study conducted by the Ohio Department of Public Safety in conjunction with the University of Akron.

Signs on an exit gate remind Los Angeles police officers to buckle their seat belts as they leave the LAPD's Pacific division in Los Angeles Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

While 86 percent of Americans now wear seat belts, an upcoming study that will be published by California's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training estimates that roughly half of law enforcement officers don't wear them. With traffic-related fatalities the leading cause of death of officers on duty, departments nationwide are buckling down to get officers to buckle up.

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