Last summer,Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole announced a new seatbelt-use rule: allthe drivers and front passengers will be fined if they don’t wear seat beltsafter April 1989. The 31 wouldn’t have been necessary but for onesimple fact. Even though seat belts could 32 nearly half of the deaths in fatal caraccidents, 85 percent of the population simply won’t wear them. More than30,000 drivers and front seat passengers are killed or 33 injured each year. A 34 ofonly 30 miles per h our is the same as falling from a third-floor window.Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it 35 yourchance of death or serious injury by more than half. 36 ,drivers or front seat passengers over 14 inmost vehicles must wear a seat belt. If you do not, you could be fined up to$50. It will not be up to the drivers to make sure you wear your belt. But itwill be the driver’s responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not 37 inthe front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind. 38 , you do not have to wear a seatbelt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery orcollection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificatewhich excuses you from wearing it. Make 39 these circumstances apply to youbefore you decide not to wear your seat belt. Remember you may be taken to 40 for not doing so, and you may befined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearingit. A) However B) sure C) ride D) court E) Therefore F) environment G) reduce H) complex I) speed J) only K) seriously L) decide M) prevent N) dangerously O) rule