Gopinath Munde should have worn seat belt: Harsh Vardhan

Closer home in 2007, former Delhi Chief Minister, Sahib Singh Verma, who was also a Cabinet Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government died in a road accident after a collision with a truck.

He too could have lived had he been wearing a seat belt, Vardhan stated.

“It is a fallacy that Mundeji could have been saved because he had been found sitting inside the car and not thrown out. Actually the damage to the human body is often greater when the victim is not ejected from the vehicle,” Vardhan said.

Vardhan further said that seat belts when worn correctly save lives.

“Research in the UK has shown that wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury to front seat passenger car occupants by 45 per cent, and risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 50 per cent,” he said.