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Seatbelts save lives and reduce societal cost

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Because your traumatic injury is highly expensive for everyone else. Governments mandate wearing seatbelts not just out of pure compassion, but because scraping citizens off the pavement requires massive medical resources and drains the public purse.

Seatbelts save lives and reduce societal cost
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