Steamboat Today: You could save a life
Steamboat Today reported Jan. 15 that the majority of the five traffic deaths in Routt County last year were preventable. And we are both dismayed and disturbed that area motorists continue to get behind the wheel without taking a moment to buckle their seat belts.
The Colorado State Patrol confirmed to the newspaper that, for the second year in a row, five people had died in motor vehicle accidents here in 2017. That ranks 2016 and 2017 as the deadliest years on local roads since 2009.
In spite of the fact that Colorado law requires drivers and other adults riding in the front seat of a vehicle to wear seat belts, four of the five people who lost their lives in traffic accidents here last year weren’t buckled up.
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