SHOULDER BELT UTILIZATION

THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE AN ESTIMATE OF THE PERCENTAGE OF DRIVERS USING AN AVAILABLE SHOULDER BELT DURING NORMAL DRIVING. A TOTAL OF 1,707 FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF DRIVERS MOVING IN TRAFFIC WERE COLLECTED IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND ANALYSIS OF THIS DATA REVEALED AN OVERALL SHOULDER BELT UTILIZATION RATE OF 10.06% IN RURAL AREAS AND 6.41% IN URBAN AREAS. SHOULDER BELT USE WAS RELATED TO A NUMBER OF PARAMETERS. FOR INSTANCE, MALE DRIVERS HAD A UTILIZATION RATE OF 9.51% COMPARED TO FEMALE DRIVERS (UTILIZATION RATE 4.82%). ALSO DRIVERS OPERATING SMALL FOREIGN VEHICLES USED THE SHOULDER BELT MORE OFTEN THAN DRIVERS OPERATING VEHICLES MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S. (UTILIZATION RATES: FOREIGN VEHICLES 19.86%, AMERICAN VEHICLES 5.96%). SHOULDER BELT UTILIZATION IS RELATIVELY SMALL FOR ALL GROUPS. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599
• Authors:
  • Anderson, T E
• Publication Date: 1971-2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Drivers; Estimating; Foreign automobiles; Gender; Shoulder harnesses; Surveys; Utilization
• Old TRIS Terms: Foreign vehicles; Shoulder harness
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223497
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 21 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 11 1971 12:00AM