AN INVESTIGATION OF SAFETY BELT USAGE AND EFFECTIVENESS

Seat belt effectiveness in accidents is initially discussed from a population parameter point of view. The report also includes some exploratory studies of the degree of misclassification errors involved in the police reports on belt usage and degree of injury along with some tools to partially resolve such problems. Methodology is developed for investigating the bivariate injury distribution for belted and unbelted drivers to provide insight into the mechanism of the injury-reducing potential of belts in accidents.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/1154
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Hochberg, Y
  • Reinfurt, D W
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 62 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashes; Injuries; Manual safety belts; Measures of effectiveness; Methodology; Research; Traffic crashes; Utilization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00090635
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Intrm Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-4-00897
• Files: NTIS, NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 10 1975 12:00AM