• Campaign. 7% more complaints for not using it

  • Balance: Road deaths fall less than mobility did in 2020

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The first seat belt was the brainchild of Nils Bohlin, an engineer for the Swedish manufacturer Volvo.

It was 1959.

In Spain, it became compulsory since 1973 on the road and, since 1992, in urban areas and in the rear seats.

But if 50 years ago the DGT had to insist on the importance of this element, then a stranger who has to continue doing so is surprising now.

Above all, because studies insist time and again that it

reduces the risk of death by 50% and that of serious injury by 75%.

And yet, in 2020 and with data on accidents that occurred on interurban roads within 24 hours, the percentage of deaths in passenger cars and vans that did not use said safety device increased from 22% to 26%.

A total of 125 people of which half would have been saved.

This increase, moreover, was also revealed in the last belt-use surveillance campaign between March 8 and 14, in which the number of drivers who were not wearing it increased by 7%, compared to the same campaign that was carried out last year.

All this has led the DGT to launch an awareness campaign, yet another to end these behaviors.

He has baptized it as "Not wearing the belt seems a thing of the past ... but it is not" because of the bad indicators and because, in part, it is illustrated

with images from an advertisement from 1973 in which the importance of of this security element.

The campaign can be followed on radio and seen on television, digital and social networks (#PareceCosaDelPasado) and once again resort to harsh and dramatic images, although not morbid.

And it is made to coincide with Holy Week because, without the possibility of making large trips beyond the province or the CCAA in which we reside,

short trips take even more weight, by known roads and a large part of them, by secondary roads .

The same that claim, each year, about 75% of the lives lost on the road.

In fact, the DGT recalls that last March 19, in which there were also perimeter closures in those communities where this day was a public holiday, it became the second day of the year with the highest death toll (9 people).

So far this year, there have been 191 fatalities in 24-hour road accidents.

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