It is 50 years since the first three point seat belt in a production was added Auto - at the time, saved it around one million according to Volvo, the car company lives for the first time made it.
The permanent design was by Nils Bohlin, a Swedish inventor working for Volvo invented, who wanted to improve used early round belt in the automotive industry.
Bohlin's invention was both protection of air passengers and the ease of setting a belt on increased, patented in the late 1950s, but immediately freely made available other automakers.
Click you in the United Kingdom Government sponsored campaigns in the 1970's increasing the amount of people who take choice belt, but it was not helped up 1983 than wear seat belts on the front of a car was mandatory that most started to use it.
Seat belts were 1991 mandatory for child passengers in 1989 and then for all passengers, front and back.
Believed it is that the revolution in the seat belt wearing in that country alone has saved thousands of lives? an estimated 35,000 since 1983, according to the Parliamentary Advisory Council for transport safety.
Department for transport but claims that approximately 10% of drivers still fail Gürtel-Up, but by the insurer research direct line last year suggested that the figure could be as high as 19%.
And road safety activists are highlighting their claim that several hundred more deaths each year would be removed if all your seat belt.
"Wearing a seat belt is a way, you can dramatically increase your chances of survival in a crash, even though only a short drive or you believe it, it is necessary to set one is not," said Duncan Vernon, from security group ROSPA, BBC News.
"As we get new drivers each week, it is important that everyone hears about the message, such as the belt carry important is."
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