Fatality reduction by safety belts for front-seat occupants of cars and light trucks : updated and expanded estimates based on 1986-99 FARS data

Kahane, C. J.

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Fatality reduction by safety belts for front-seat occupants of cars and light trucks : updated and expanded estimates based on 1986-99 FARS data

2000-12-01
By Kahane, C. J.

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Kahane, C. J.
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Publication/ Report Number:

DOT-HS-809 199
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Research Paper
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

NHTSA technical report
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Abstract:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated in 1984 that manual 3-point safety belts ; reduce the fatality risk of front-seat occupants of passenger cars by 45 percent relative to the unrestrained ; occupant. The agency still relies on that estimate. Shortly after 1985, the prime analysis technique for ; Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data, double-pair comparison, began producing inflated, ; unreliable results. This report develops an empirical tool to adjust double-pair comparison analyses of ; 1986-99 FARS data. It validates the adjustments by comparing the belt use of fatally injured people in ; certain types of crashes to belt use observed on the road in State and national surveys. These methods ; reconfirm the agency’s earlier estimates of fatality reduction by manual 3-point belts: 45 percent in ; passenger cars and 60 percent in light trucks. Furthermore, they open the abundant 1986-99 FARS data to ; additional analyses, permitting point-estimation of belt effectiveness by crash type, occupant age and ; gender, belt type, vehicle type, etc.
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