Seat Belt Use on North Dakota Rural Roads: 2010

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 work 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 (NDDOT 2008). In 2009, a pilot project was initiated to develop a more rigorous and consistent metric for measuring rural seat belt use in North Dakota (Vachal et al. 2009). This study is a follow-up to the 2009 project, replicating the previous methodology to measure North Dakota rural seat belt use for 2010.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=675
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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
  • Vachal, Kimberly
  • Benson, Laurel
  • Malchose, Donald
  • Lofgren, Mark
• Publication Date: 2010-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Research Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 27p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Fatalities; Rural highways; 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: 01449129
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DP-235
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 11 2012 3:44PM