Taxi
passengers, especially those who sit in the backseat, will be
reminded to wear their seatbelts through a campaign launched by the
Traffic Police, Singapore Road Safety Council and Liberty Insurance
on Tuesday. All 16,000 ComfortDelGro taxis now have the seatbelts
carrying safety messages installed in them.
The Traffic
Police's commanding officer for road safety, Deputy Superintendent
Soh Wan Khuan noted that many backseat passengers, compared to
those who sit in front, are not in the habit of belting up. He
added that wearing seatbelts saves backseat passengers especially
because they do not have airbags for protection in the case of an
accident
Mr Martin
Bridger, chief executive of Liberty Insurance, said that with the
recent slew of fatalities on Singapore roads, this campaign is
"timely" to reinforce the importance of wearing
seatbelts.
"Road
traffic deaths and injuries are fast becoming a growing global
epidemic. Global statistics show that every six seconds, someone is
killed or injured on the world's roads," he said.
