Rodrigo Mussi x car accident: seat belt in the back seat saves lives

In the early hours of last Thursday, March 31, the former BBB Rodrigo Mussi suffered a serious accident in the capital of São Paulo.

The 36-year-old commercial manager was in an app car when the vehicle hit the back of a truck carrying soybeans. The driver was wearing a belt and was not injured. The former BBB, as far as is known, was not protected with the safety device and, on impact, he, who was in the back seat, was thrown towards the front of the car.

The accident is still under investigation and no cause can be linked to it yet, but the fact is that the case sparked an alert for the importance of wearing a seat belt in the back seat.

Rodrigo suffered head trauma and fractures in other parts of his body.

Car accident involving Rodrigo Mussi highlights the importance of wearing a seat belt in the back seat of the car

The National Health Survey (PNS), carried out by the IBGE in 2019 and released two years later, in 2021, showed that 79.4% of respondents wear a seat belt whenever they are in the front seat of the car; on the back, the numbers show that only 54.6% of Brazilians have the habit.

On average, 46% of the population do not protect themselves with the safety device when they are in the rear of the vehicle, which represents great danger.

The National Department of Transport Infrastructure (Dnit) states that the lack of wearing a seat belt in the back seat, although common, poses a risk to all passengers in the car: “Passengers have a false sense of security that the rear seat provides, because they imagine that they are protected by the front seats and that they are far from the windshield. However, this is not true. The force that a person receives in a crash is something around 35 times its weight. With such great force, there is no seat that can stop it. The result is the back passenger crushing the person sitting in front and seriously injuring himself.”

Seat belts save lives. Take cover!

Source: Recreio