Seat belt obligation Please fasten your seat belt - for 30 years, seat belts have also been compulsory on rear seats

For 30 years now, seat belts have also been compulsory in the back seats of cars in Switzerland. Current data from the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (BFU) and the Federal Statistical Office confirm the effectiveness of this road safety measure.

According to the BFU, 96% of car drivers, 95% of front-seat passengers and 92% of rear-seat passengers currently wear a seat belt. According to the BFU, wearing seat belts has prevented more than 5700 serious injuries and around 650 fatalities following road accidents in Switzerland in the last ten years.

The latest FSO figures also confirm how effective seat belts are. Of the 2023 people killed in accidents in passenger cars, 6.6% were not wearing a seatbelt. 20.3% of those not wearing a seatbelt were seriously injured and 73% were slightly injured.

In contrast, the proportion of fatalities who were wearing a seat belt was only 0.5 percent. And only 8 percent of those wearing seat belts were seriously injured.

SDA