"Buckling Up" Clip from Interview with Jeanine Head Miller, 2011
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Seat belts are the single most important safety device in an automobile. Nevertheless, drivers were slow to use them. State laws, public education campaigns, and short-lived ignition interlocks -- which prevented a car from starting unless seat belts were fastened -- all promoted seat belt use. By the 1990s, buckling up was a habit for American motorists.
Seat belts are the single most important safety device in an automobile. Nevertheless, drivers were slow to use them. State laws, public education campaigns, and short-lived ignition interlocks -- which prevented a car from starting unless seat belts were fastened -- all promoted seat belt use. By the 1990s, buckling up was a habit for American motorists.
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Film clip
Date Made
2011
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.386.17
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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