Seat Belt Use in 2022 — Use Rates in the States and Territories [Traffic Safety Facts - Crash Stats]
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Seat Belt Use in 2022 — Use Rates in the States and Territories [Traffic Safety Facts - Crash Stats]

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  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
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    DOT HS 813 487
  • Resource Type:
    Brief
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Edition:
    Traffic Safety Facts - Crash Stats
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Abstract:
    In 2022 seat belt use in the United States ranged from 67 percent in the U.S. Virgin Islands to 96.5 percent in Oregon. Twenty-six States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands achieved seat belt use rates of 90 percent or higher. These results are from probability-based observational surveys conducted by the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories. In 2011 NHTSA established new uniform criteria for observational surveys. States conduct and report out from their annual surveys of seat belt use in accordance with the Uniform Criteria for State Observational Surveys of Seat Belt Use (per 23 CFR Part 1340). Compliance with the criteria is verified annually by NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis. The Uniform Criteria for State Observational Surveys of Seat Belt Use requires States and Territories to re-select their observation sites “no less than once every five years” using an updated State or Territory road segment sampling frame. In 2022 there were 29 States and Territories that re-selected their observation sites. The remaining States and Territories will re-select their observation sites in 2023. Seat belt use rates in the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, other U.S. Territories, and nationwide from 2015 to 2022 are listed in the table below. Rates in jurisdictions with primary seat belt enforcement during the calendar year of the survey are shaded in the table. However, the law might not have taken effect when the survey was being conducted. It was found that twenty-six States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands achieved belt use rate of 90 percent or higher. Jurisdictions with stronger seat belt enforcement laws continue to exhibit generally higher use rates than those with weaker laws.
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