Seat Belt Use on North Dakota Rural Roads: 2012
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 seat belt use on non-interstate rural roads. In 2001, 88% of fatal crashes occurred on rural roads. During the past five years, 9 of every 10 fatal crashes occurred on non-interstate rural roads (North Dakota Department of Transportation 2012). Understanding tendencies and trends in seat belt use on these rural roads is essential to wise decisions regarding efforts to encourage seat belt use in the state. The U.S. Department of Transportation does work with states to measure seat belt use through the long-standing annual National Occupant Passenger Use Survey (NOPUS).
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Corporate Authors:
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
1320 Albrecht Boulevard
Fargo, ND United States 581052 -
Authors:
- Vachal, Kimberly
- Benson, Laurel
- Publication Date: 2012-9
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 37p
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: 01447668
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: DP-255
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 28 2012 2:29PM