Seatbelts important

New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine probably doesn't want the job, but he would be a good poster model for wearing seatbelts.

Gov. Corzine was in a bad car accident April 12 that broke 11 of his ribs, his sternum, a leg, his collarbone and a vertebra.

He wasn't wearing a seatbelt when the SUV he was riding in that was being driven by a state trooper crashed into another vehicle. The SUV was said to be going in excess of 90 mph.

Even though he was the governor, it is obvious that the governor's vehicle shouldn't have been going so fast. It is also more than obvious that he should have been wearing a seatbelt.

Seatbelts can and do save lives. We should all buckle up when we get in a vehicle- whether we are going to the corner store or taking a 500-mile trip.

Gov. Corzine is in line for a long and grueling recovery and rehabilitation period. Things might have been different had he had his seatbelt on- and had the trooper not been driving like a bat out of you-know-what.

Neither governors nor troopers are immune to car accidents, this incident proves.

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