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reduce this load by at least 25° . ee
per cent. _ ee

Regardless of the number Snecializing
of lives which could be f° , ek One ~
saved, you Mr. Editor, and I, - es in perms.
and D.M. Serensen, and j g@ — feo. - for a
every other B.C. taxpayer | = es or
are paying good money to j{
keep 100 people ‘in hospital
all year because we do not
have such legislation. In
dollars this cost of providing
hospital services to 100
people for a year. approxi-
mates $4 million based on

Department of Health fig-
ures.

MenandLadies |
We recommend

{[EDITOR’S NOTE: D.M.
Serensen’s letter, refer-
red to by the following
reader, strongly opposed
mandatory seat belt leg-
islation om the grounds
that. it wéuld infringe.
personal liberty and di-
minish personal respon-

“Education has been tried
sibility]

but does not raise the
wearing rate significantly
above its present 15-20 per
cent level. Legislation in
other jurisdictions has prov-
ed it raises the wearing rate
to a 60-70 per cent level. This
_is a saving in dollars and in
suffering worth giving up
some freedoms for. B.C. has
already fallen behind much
of the free world in this
- area—it’s time we caught
up. .

Dear Editor:

I have read with interest
the letter of D:M. Serensen
of Westbank, B.C. which has
appeared ‘in a number of

‘*Letters to the Editor’’
columns. ;

I cannot but agree with
D.M. Serensen’s opinions as.
they relate to many of the
habits to be found in the life.
style of some of ‘that pocple disagree on the subject of taxpayers expense. It has H.B. Earle
should be encouraged to mandatory seat belt legisla- been proven that mandatory Chairman,
behave ina more responsible 0. There are enough auto seat belt legislation, as H.B. Earle, | : |
way than they do. accident victims in B.C. each opposed to: education and ©: Chairman, 7 | oo SE

— _ year to keep one 400 bed individual decisions as D.M.. B.C. Road Safety _ |

However, I completely . hospital permanently full, at. Serensen suggests, would Coordinating Council

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