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Students join Battle of the Belt

Rebels Students Awareness wants you to buckle up

By CHRIS CLINE\Daily Journal Staff Writer

Friday, October 06, 2006

PARK HILLS - A group of Central High School students are taking a proactive way in getting people to buckle their seatbelts. The ‘Rebels Students Awareness' (RSA) group has joined the national “Battle of the Belt Challenge.”

The challenge's main goal is to increase awareness about seatbelt safety.

“We conducted a random seatbelt of Central High School students on Monday,” said RSA Sponsor Jennifer Huff. “We found that 72 percent of the students did not wear seatbelts.”

Huff said as a way of reminding people to buckle up, RSA is painting signs with a stencil, provided by the Missouri Department of Transportation, on various streets throughout Park Hills. The group is also posting signs reminding people to buckle their seatbelts.

“We are having a fund-raiser called ‘Cents for Safety,'” Huff said. “The challenge runs Oct. 2 through Nov. 30. We need to show that by the end of the challenge there is an increase in the number of students wearing their seatbelts. So we will have another check in the near future. Basically, the next two months will be an educational blitz about seatbelt safety.”

Published: Friday, October 06, 2006.
Updated: Friday, October 6, 2006 10:52 AM CDT

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to the parents posted on Saturday, April 7th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

You all are in our thoughts and prayers. I went to see the car and had my 15 1/2 y/o son with me. He thinks nothing like this can happen to him. I wish the schools would have more programs to educate young drivers on this. Maybe move the age up a bit to 18.

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