Year 1 of the Washington Nighttime Seat Belt Enforcement Program [Traffic Tech]

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway safety
  • Night
  • Public information programs
  • Publicity
  • Safety campaigns
  • Seat belts
  • Traffic law enforcement
  • Utilization
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Number 396
• Series:
  NHTSA BSR Traffic Tech
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1525880
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Washington
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  The first year of the Washington nighttime belt program ran from May 2007 through May 2008. During this period, WTSC ran three, two-week nighttime seat belt enforcement campaigns. The primary message of the ad was that “extra seat-belt-focused law enforcement patrols are taking place at night because the death rate at night is four times higher than it is during the day.” Preliminary findings from the first year of the program are now available. Law enforcement issued 4,516 seat belt citations during NTSBE activities in May 2007, 3,822 in November 2007, and 5,194 in May 2008. The number of citations issued per hour worked was comparable to daytime CIOT campaigns although fewer law enforcement agencies participated in the nighttime programs. Other arrests, such as DUI, drug, and felony arrests per officer hour worked, increased during the nighttime seatbelt enforcement campaigns compared to daytime CIOT.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/2061/dot_2061_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 923.94 KB]
• Collection(s):
  NHTSA - Behavioral Safety Research
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5d1f67aa9a00e2d87648d6c6b6dd24e0e05cc0811a70c4970b31c34e72df8754