Mandatory seat belt use laws.

Details

• Creators:
  Grey, Joseph
• Corporate Creators:
  Virginia Highway & Transportation Research Council
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automobiles--Law and legislation--Virginia
  • Automobiles--Law and legislation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  VHTRC 85-R18
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Virginia
• Corporate Publisher:
  Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC)
• Description:
  The purposes of this study were to review mandatory seat belt use laws as they have been used around the world, to forecast the impact of such a law in Virginia, and, if appropriate, to propose a mandatory seat belt law for inclusion in the Code of Virginia. This report consists of a review of the literature on mandatory seat belt laws, an analysis of automobile crash data for Virginia for the years 1978 through 1983, and a study of available statistics on current restraint use in the Commonwealth. The results indicate that a mandatory seat belt law would save hundreds of lives and cause great reductions in injuries from automobile accidents. The relatively low administrative costs associated with this law would be vastly outweighed by savings directly attributable to seat belt use. Consequently this report proposes that an act mandating restraint use be passed in Virginia.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/19083/dot_19083_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.06 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5b78e65a99ccf566d01d26b5c621271c439865baa8f81cedec3713e36d64247d