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Another tribune for accident reduction

Editorial-Guyana Chronicle March 18th 2003 

WHEN the Police Traffic Department began enforcing the country’s seatbelt law at the beginning of June last year, we editorialized our support for the initiative amid complaints by drivers and passengers alike that seatbelt wearing was a cumbersome, time-wasting exercise.

We felt, then, as Guyanese generally did during a national consultation on traffic law reform, that the institution of a seatbelt law was vital to reducing human injury and death from road accidents.

We’re expressing another tribune for accident reduction because reports are coming through that the non-wearing of seatbelts is a major factor in some …