New campaign targets seatbelt compliance in WA, ahead of new cameras going live [Video]

The WA Government has launched a new ‘Seatbelts Save Lives’ campaign through the Road Safety Commission to help raise awareness of the importance of wearing seatbelts.

The campaign provides insight into the true impact of not wearing seatbelts from the point of view of those first on the scene in a crash.

Over the past five years, 20 per cent of people who died in a crash on Western Australian roads were not wearing seatbelts.

“It continues to shock me that people are still not putting on their seatbelt – it should be automatic,” said Road Safety Minister David Michael.

“Last year 23 people died on our roads not wearing a seatbelt. Many of those people are likely to be alive today if …