A 19-year-old Private assigned to 20th Engineering Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, died in a PMV-4 mishap 17 March 2018 in Floyd County, Indiana, at 0230 local. The Soldier’s vehicle exited the interstate, traveled into the median and rolled numerous times before coming to a rest inverted. He was reportedly not wearing a seat belt.
ENGAGEMENT TIPS:
- Forty-eight percent of passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in traffic crashes in 2016 were unrestrained.
- Seat belts saved an estimated 14,668 lives of passenger vehicle occupants 5 and older in 2016.
- Research has found that lap/shoulder seat belts, when used, reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passenger car occupants by 45 percent and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 50 percent.