Montana Highway Patrol Tells Drivers To Buckle Up
POSTED: 10:19 pm MDT September 6, 2010UPDATED: 10:46 pm MDT September 6, 2010MISSOULA, Mont. -- Montana Highway Patrol warns people to buckle up after a series of accidents this weekend.The first accident happened early Saturday morning on Roller Coaster Road just outside the Missoula city limits. A 16-year-old girl was not wearing her seat belt and was ejected. She went to St. Patrick hospital in serious condition.Saturday evening, a Columbia Falls couple died in a head on crash near paradise, northwest of Missoula.And early Sunday morning, a Utah man died after being ejected from his vehicle on I-15 about 100 miles South of Butte.Trooper Ben Amos says wearing a seatbelt is the biggest safety tip people ignore. Trooper Amos tells us he's seen crashes where people could've survived if they'd been wearing seatbelts.Amos says regarding several crashes in which people were severely injured or died "A seatbelt would've kept that person in the vehicle where they might have sustained some injuries, still might get banged up but it would not cost them their life if they had worn it."
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