Effects of seatbelt laws on highway fatalities

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• Creators:
  Skinner, David ; Borener, S.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Fatalities Federal Laws
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Edition:
  Project memorandum
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors
• Abstract:
  The statistical models used in this update indicate that states
  
  which have a seatbelt law have experienced on average a 7.7
  
  percent reduction in frontseat occupant fatalities in vehicles
  
  generally covered by laws. That is, on average in any law
  
  state, these fatalities are 7.7 percent less than would have
  
  been expected in the absence of a law. This result is based
  
  on historical relationships of almost 14 years (January 1975
  
  through December 1988) contained in the Fatal Accident
  
  Reporting System(FARS) database.
  
  Removing any comparison with non-seatbelt law states does
  
  not change the result appreciably. It is recognized that some
  
  of the savings of lives may be attributable to greater
  
  acceptance of seatbelts in the driving population and not
  
  just the effects of the law.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DOT-TSC-HS070-PM-89-28
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d51cc2b2f7323208b71f2df13f3b988aee73da2fb891603e2da59c4e6133d39c
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5853/dot_5853_DS1.pdf
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