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Motor vehicle safety : comprehensive state programs offer best opportunity for increasing use of safety belts
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1996-01-01
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Abstract:This report describes the nation's progress in achieving goals for the use of safety belts in motor vehicles, assesses the strategies used most successfully by some states to increase the use of safety belts, and identifies federal strategies that could help increase this use. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 10,000 deaths, 200,000 injuries, and $20 billion in costs to society could be avoided annually if all of the occupants of motor vehicles wore safety belts. This report presents a matter for congressional consideration and a recommendation to the Secretary of Transportation aimed at further increasing the use of safety belts. Following an Executive Summary, the report is presented in the following four chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Safety Belt Use Has Increased, but National Goals Have Not Been Met; (3) Primary Enforcement Laws and Aggressive Enforcement Are Key to Increased Belt Use; and (4) Federal Strategies for Increasing Safety Belt Use.
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