{"id":317,"date":"2010-07-23T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-07-26T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T23:07:01","slug":"92-of-illinois-drivers-using-seat-belts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/92-of-illinois-drivers-using-seat-belts\/","title":{"rendered":"92% of Illinois Drivers using Seat Belts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/seatbelts2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/seatbelts2.jpg\" alt=\"Illinois has 92% Seatbelt Usage | Photo credit: morguefiles.com\" title=\"seatbelts2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/seatbelts2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/seatbelts2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s true that safe driving habits like the regular use of seat belts keeps insurance premiums low, than motorists in Illinois are in a good position right now. Why? Because according to the Illinois Department of Transportation, more than 92 percent of the drivers in that state are using safety belts. <\/p>\n<p>Gary Hannig, Transportation Secretary for the State of Illinois, says that for the first six months of 2010, there have been fewer-than-average traffic-related deaths, with the total number of fatalities being 361, down 16.8 percent from the 434 fatalities logged in during the same period in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Hannig estimates that 92.6 percent of Illinois drivers and front-seat passengers are remembering to buckle up, whenever they&#8217;re in a vehicle. This number represents a 16% increase in the use of seat belts since 2003, when the average was 76.4 percent. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/states-illinois.htm\">Illinois driving laws<\/a> changed in 2004, making it allowable for police officers to stop motorists for the sole offense of not wearing a safety belt. Before then, as in most other parts of the United States, there had to be another reason to stop a car, and lack of a seat belt merely increased the fine. <\/p>\n<p>The total number of traffic-related deaths in Illinois last year was 928, which is the lowest number since 1921, when 887 people died in car accidents, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.il.gov\/\">Illinois Department of Transportation<\/a> says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s true that safe driving habits like the regular use of seat belts keeps insurance premiums low, than motorists in Illinois are in a good position right now. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,196],"tags":[198,197,119],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-safety","category-illinois-car-insurance","tag-driving-laws","tag-illinois","tag-insurance","cat-15-id","cat-196-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}