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.The Daily Tar HeelMonday, December 2, 19853 o 1 on mmm By RHESA VERSOLA Assistant Business Editoi Dramshop coverage (third-party liquor liability) forces restaurant bar o nets and operators to become more responsible for their patrons who consume alcohol. Selling alcohol in Chapel Hill is becoming more difficult with rising costs in liquor liability insurance, said one representative for a popular restau rant bar on Franklin Street. As a result, some drink prices have risen. The costs for liability insurance had reached an emergency level, said T. Jerry Williams, executive vice president of the N.C. Restaurant Association. He said one N.C. restaurant had had a five thousand percent increase. "Insurance is a scam anyway," said Mark Burnett, manager of He's Not Here. "Its not okay, but youVe got to pay it. He said that many bars now are not carrying liability insurance because of high rates. The liability insurance for He's Not Here increased by more than 300 percent which is equivalent to about 3,000 beers. "Companies are playing havoc,"said Williams. "Insurance is being cancelled left and right." He said some restaurants and bars no longer carried the liability insurance because they could not get the insurance or could not afford it. Williams said the general consensus in a recent meeting with the Interna tional Restaurant Association Execu tives was "unless some caps are put on the liability, the whole system will collapse. "We've gotten to the point that everyone is suing everybody," he said. "We do not think the establishment is any more responsible for the person than he is for his own actions." According to Williams, a bid has been put before a N.C. legislative study committee to place a ceiling of $100 to $105 thousand in liability insurance. "I don't see how we can pay any more than minimum car insurance ($25 thousand), said Williams. "We need to amend the law that caps liability. The problem is going to get worse before Experts deny seatbeU danger fin car ike By JEAN LUTES Staff Writer Fear that drivers wearing seat belts will be trapped in burning cars after collisions is over-estimated, said Patri cia F. Waller, associate director for driver studies at the University's High way Safety Research Center. Waller and Juliana M. Ma, a com puter analyst at the center, studied records of almost 3.5 million car accidents in North Carolina from 1971 82. They found that fewer than four out of every 10,000 cars burst into flames following crashes, and drivers wearing seat belts had much better chances of survival than unbelted drivers in the small number of fiery collisions that did occur. "The idea of being trapped is a terrifying one, reinforced by television shows and the news media, which are much more likely to cover a fiery crash than a normal one," Waller said. The researchers found only three cases in which a belted driver was killed in a crash followed by a fire, and "in each of those crashes, the driver was almost certainly dead before the fire started," Waller noted. There were 72 unbelted drivers who were fatally injured in fires after wrecks. "In crashes severe enough to cause fires, drivers wearing seat belts are much more likely to be in any condition to take steps to get out (of the car)," Waller said. Belt usage for front seat passengers has been recorded since 1973, and Ma and Waller found that no belted front seat passengers had died in crashes involving fires, and 16 unbelted pas sengers were killed. "The data indicates that even in the case of fire you're far better off with your seat belt on," Waller said. . . ELLIOT ROAD at E. FRANKLIN 967-4737 $250 TIL 6:00 PM EVERYDAY! 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