Students from Marguerita School recently scaled the heights in order to have a familiar message hammered home – wear your seatbelts.
Even though we have been bombarded for years with messages concerning the need to wear seatbelts, most have occasionally been guilty of failing to buckle up, especially for those short trips to the market or the post office – where the roads are familiar, and you won’t be going very fast; however, a new program offered by Safe Moves would have people convinced they should buckle up even when just pulling their car into their garage.

The message is simple and compelling, displayed on a banner that stretches the length of thirty-foot wall that students had the opportunity to climb – “A sudden stop at 30 mph causes the same crushing force as a fall from a three story building – Seatbelt: Wear it for Life.”

No one even considered not buckling up a harness before attempting to scale the wall; no one doubted that a fall from 30 feet would be catastrophic, and there were few that were deluded in thinking they would be able to climb the wall without making a mistake that would send them plummeting to the ground.

Students were secure in the fact that the harness they were wearing would keep them safe, in the same way their seat belt would keep them from harm should they or someone else make a mistake.
So while the students were having the time of their life in attempting to climb the thirty foot wall, they may well have been given much more time to live if they will only wear their seatbelts for life.
Safe Moves is a non-profit organization, now recognized as the leading authority in traffic safety education in the country. Safe Moves has not only been credited with saving thousands of children’s lives through education, but also through legislation.