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Though the number of vehicle accidents fell in Virginia between 2017 and 2022, the number of fatalities increased due to riskier behaviors, such as not wearing a seat belt. (admin_design/Shutterstock) 
Virginia's traffic fatalities would plummet if more people — drivers and passengers — always wore their seat belts in their vehicles, author and former journalist Ronald G. Shafer writes in a guest column.
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