Miley Cyrus has been busted by Consumer Reports. The Associated Press reports that the 15-year-old actress and singing sensation was caught without a seat belt in the back seat of a Range River in her hit movieHannah Montana/ Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour. You can read the Consumer Reports blog post here. In it Consumer Reports explains why seat bealts are so important.
Why should we care? Because, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in about 55 percent of passenger vehicle fatalities in 2006 (the latest data available), the occupants were not wearing seat belts. Even worse, in the 13- to 15-year-old age group, that percentage climbs to 65 percent. Unfortunately, we're not surprised by these grim statistics because a 2002 survey by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showed that when parents were dropping teens off at school in the morning, nearly half the teens weren't using seat belts.
