Seat Belt Use on North Dakota Rural Roads: 2011

Fatal crash reports for North Dakota from 2007 to 2010 show that nearly 88% of serious injuries, including fatal and disabling injuries, occurred on rural roads. With the understanding that seat belts are a relatively low-cost safety device, and are an easy primary protection for occupants in passenger vehicles, North Dakota has chosen to continue to measure rural roads seat belt use. The U.S. Department of Transportation works with states to measure seat belt use through the annual National Occupant Passenger Use Survey (NOPUS). However, NOPUS does not include observation sites on local rural roads, the location for 1 in every 3 fatal crashes during the past five years (North Dakota Department of Transportation 2008). This study is a continuation of previous measurement of rural seat belt usage in North Dakota.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=705
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• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052
• Authors:
  • Huseth, Andrea
  • Benson, Laurel
  • Malchose, Donald
  • Vachal, Kimberly
• Publication Date: 2011-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 29p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatalities; Highway safety; Rural areas; Seat belt use; Seat belts
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01446498
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DP-244
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 19 2012 1:28PM