The Road Safety Authority is reminding people that seatbelts are life savers.
It comes as Gardai say that 8,000 people have received fines for not wearing a safety belt.
One third of people who died in vehicular crashes were not wearing a seatbelt.
Brian Farrell of the Road Safety Authority, says a seatbelt can save your own life, as well as the other people you're in a car with:
