BS - Sunday, March 13, 1983 - North Shore News

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Women do it more often
than-men. Peopie over 55 do
it more than any other age
group. And Lower Mainland
residents do it more
regularly than people in
other parts of B.C.

Buckling up — who does
it, when, where and why —
is the subject of a recent
province-wide survey
released this week by the
Insurance Corporation of
British Columbia.

The survey, carried out
last December for the
Traffic Safety Education
Department of ICBC. in-
volved 9.580 velnicles and
their 13,801 occupants in 28
police jurisdictions.

Local and provincial
statistics gathered in the
survey will assist the RCMP,
Municipal Police forces and
ICBC in their joint campaign
to mecrease scat belt use
during the coming months.
Their target ts an 80 per cent
wearing rate for B.C.

“Our short term goal is to
increase seat belt use by a
minimum of 10 per cent and
reducc the continuing toll of
serious injury and death due
to traffic crashes on B.C.
roads,” says Patty Manduca,
manager of ICBC's Traffic
Safety Education Deparn
ment and = director of

CounterAttack Schoo! and

Community programs.
“This

local information

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Drivers rated the highest,
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to 51 per cent of the men.
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Statistics gathered by
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