Wearing a seat belt in a collision can…?
- Make no difference to your chance of being injured or killed
- Make it more difficult for emergency services to help you
- Increase your chance of being injured or killed
- Decrease your chance of being injured or killed ✓
Answer: D. Decrease your chance of being injured or killed
Wearing a seat belt in a collision can decrease your chance of being injured or killed.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says a crash pushes hundreds of kilograms against your body even at low speed. With a lap belt and shoulder strap, you are much less likely to be injured, knocked unconscious or thrown out. It also says seat belts significantly reduce the chance of serious injury or death in a crash. So the bank answer matches the handbook: a belt lowers your risk. The passages give no support for saying a belt makes no difference, raises your risk, or makes emergency help harder.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Make no difference to your chance of being injured or killed — The handbook says a seat belt significantly reduces the chance of serious injury or death, so it does make a difference.
- B. Make it more difficult for emergency services to help you — The passages do not say belts make it harder for emergency services; they say belts lower injury risk and help you stay conscious and able to get out.
- C. Increase your chance of being injured or killed — The handbook says belts reduce the chance of serious injury or death, which is the opposite of increasing your chance of being injured or killed.
Remember it
Think of the belt as keeping you in the safe zone: it lowers your risk of being hurt, knocked out or thrown from the vehicle.