World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-05-29
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[0:07] A deadly fire in a tunnel in the Alps
[0:09] forces dozens of drivers to run for
[0:12] safety. And deep in the Atlantic, a
[0:14] missing coffin and new questions about
[0:17] President Kennedy's assassination.
[0:25] From ABC,
[0:28] this is World News Tonight.
[0:31] Good evening. I'm Elizabeth Vargas. On
[0:33] this Memorial Day weekend, a nationwide
[0:36] campaign to make US highway safer for
[0:38] children. An estimated 25,000 people
[0:41] will be injured in car accidents before
[0:43] the holiday ends. Nearly 500 will die.
[0:47] Many of those lives would be saved if
[0:48] the crash victims were wearing seat
[0:50] belts. Getting parents to comply with
[0:52] the law is the focus this weekend.
[0:54] Here's ABC's Ned Potter.
[0:57] It's a nationwide crackdown. 6,000 law
[1:00] enforcement agencies with zero tolerance
[1:02] for those who do not buckle up. How you
[1:05] doing? Got everybody buckled up in there
[1:07] today at this checkpoint near Atlanta.
[1:09] This driver was fined $250 for not
[1:12] having her kids wear belts. No, I'm not
[1:14] mad. And this I have learned my lesson
[1:16] with these three tickets that I have to
[1:17] pay. The crash tests and the numbers
[1:20] show why the government safety agency
[1:21] takes the issue so seriously. It
[1:24] reported this week that 41,000 people
[1:27] were killed on American highways last
[1:29] year and 62% of those who died were not
[1:32] wearing seat belts. It's borderline
[1:35] child neglect if you don't have your
[1:36] child buckled up. Joe Hill is a safety
[1:38] officer in Fairfax County, Virginia.
[1:41] This right here is a prime example of of
[1:42] a citizen not wearing their seatelt and
[1:44] what can occur. Uh no seat belt on. You
[1:47] can see the deformation o