Well, OK, guess those not buckling up are not all young men driving pickups in rural areas:
Indiana ranks second in the nation for fatal truck wrecks as a share of all deaths in road accidents.
Collisions between automobiles and large trucks accounted for 13.2 percent of all fatal Indiana crashes in 2004, a rate that trailed only Wyoming.Just why Indiana ranks so high puzzles transportation scientists who suspect the death rate traces to limited seat-belt use in speeding automobiles that get in the way of heavy freight trucks unable to stop in time.Indiana has tightened its seat belt laws since 2004 -- pickup truck and sport utility vehicle owners no longer can obtain exemptions to the seatbelt regulations.But only about 69 percent of Indianapolis-area drivers on average use seat belts.
Change "knuckleheads" to "dunderheads."
