Tagged: Car Accidents

A single-car crash Friday night in Littleton injured six people, two of them seriously, said Littleton police chief Paul Smith.

Smith said the accident occurred just past 11 p.m. on Route 135 just north of its intersection with Interstate 93.

He said the driver of a 2012 Toyota Camry lost control and the vehicle “left the road and collided with a telephone pole, which caused the vehicle to roll over several times.”

Several people were thrown from the vehicle.

New Hampshire remains the only state that doesn’t require adults to wear seat belts and many of the people killed in the state last year in crashes were thrown from their vehicles.  

By the end of 2011 eighty-eight people had been killed in traffic accidents in the state.

About a quarter of them were either thrown completely from their vehicles or partially ejected, according to state figures.

That means they were probably not wearing seat belts.

“When people are ejected from the vehicles they are two to four times more likely to die in a crash.”