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Seat belts obligation, regulation and penalties

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Seat belts what they are and what they are for Seat belts are one of the most important devices in the field of automotive safety. It is in fact these that allow you to hold the body in the event of an impact by limiting the damage that can result. Its function is to avoid the impact of the driver and passengers against the internal structures of the passenger compartment and to prevent the body from being thrown out of the vehicle. Origin and history The seat belt was invented in the late 1800s by the English engineer George Cayley to keep pilots inside their gliders. The first seat belts were patented in New York in 1885 by the American Edward J. Claghorn to protect tourists from taxis in New York City. Installed aboard a vehicle in 1903 by the Canadian Gustave Desirè Lebeau who had called them safety braces, it was necessary to wait until the mid-thirties to arrive to arouse the interest of car manufacturers. However, racing car drivers were the first to use seat belts to p