SAFETY BELT LAWS PUSHED

The Highway Users Federation and the Automotive Safety Foundation have set a goal of getting safety belt use laws in every state by 1990. This is part of the nationwide effort to cut the annual traffic death rate from 2.5 to no more than 1.5 per 100 million miles driven by the year 2000. The goal includes using education and enforcement campaigns that result in a belt use rate of at least 70 percent. There are 19 states which currently do not have safety belt use laws. Since 1984, when New York became the first state to put a belt use law into effect, through 1987, about 6,600 lives were saved and 79,000 moderate to critical injuries prevented by belt use laws and greater belt use.

• Corporate Authors:

  Baker Publishing Company

  P.O. Box 25007
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909
• Publication Date: 1988-12-15

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 2
• Serial:
  • Michigan Roads and Construction
  • Volume: 85
  • Issue Number: 50
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Company

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatalities; Injuries; Laws; Manual safety belts; Measures of effectiveness; Utilization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00478211
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1988 12:00AM