Almost 250 road crash victims were not wearing seatbelts

An average of 24 drivers or passengers each year who died were found to not have been wearing a seat belt

Almost 250 people who died in road crashes in the last 10 years were not wearing a seat belt, new figures have shown.

Data from the Irish Road Traffic Collision Database, compiled using records from the gardaí, found that an average of 24 drivers or passengers each year who died were found to not have been wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.