The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday released a new ad featuring New Jersey governor Jon S. Corzine narrating his recent experience and urging the audience to "Buckle Up." Corzine, who is still recuperating from injuries he suffered after a major highway accident that occurred in April, taped the announcement May 15 from his mansion in Princeton.

"I'm New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and I should be dead," says Corzine in the opening lines of the 30 second audio-video clip.

After that Corzine details the extent of his injuries he suffered in the crash which he indicates could have been prevented had he worn a seat belt.

"It took a remarkable team of doctors and a series of miracles to save my life when all I needed was a seat belt," says Corzine followed by an advice, "I have to live with my mistake. You don't. Buckle up," as he stands up on his crutches and walks out.

Corzine suffered numerous broken bones, including an open fracture of the left femur, 12 broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken collarbone, and a fractured lower vertebra following his accident on April 12.

Corzine was riding in the front passenger seat, and was not wearing a seat belt, when his SUV traveling at 91mph collided with another vehicle causing it spun and hit the guardrail on the highway.

The ad supplements a two-week-long campaign enforcing the use and importance of wearing seatbelts while driving. The annual seatbelt campaign, "Click it or Ticket," which began Monday and runs through June 3, comes as a research report released by the NHTSA suggested that more than 55 percent of people who died in road crashes in 2005 were not wearing their seatbelts.