That’s according to a road safety observation study commissioned by MPI last fall with Thompson, Flin Flon, and The Pas being the three northern communities in the study.

Media Relations Coordinator Brian Smiley explains checking the data they saw that with respect to the non-seatbelt use in the northern region roughly 29 hundred vehicles were looked at with a non-seatbelt use he believes of about ten percent.

MPI notes a person is 50 times more likely to be killed and almost four times more likely to be seriously injured when not wearing a seatbelt.

Additionally, failing to wear a seatbelt will result in a fine of two hundred dollars and moving down two levels on the Driver Safety Rating Scale.