A VR-Enhanced Rollover Car Simulator and Edutainment Application for Increasing Seat Belt Use Awareness

The effects of Maine's change to primary seat belt law on seat belt use and public perception and awareness.

Maine upgraded its seat belt law to primary enforcement on September 20, 2007. Belt observations during the day and night were conducted along with awareness surveys in state licensing offices. Both daytime and nighttime observed belt use increased in the months following implementation of the law (daytime 77-84%; night 69-81%). Although daytime belt use was generally higher, nighttime belt use...

Misclassification of seat belt use.

Effective Factors of Seat-Belt Use in Front Seat Passenger on Urban Trips of Bushehr: Application of Protection Motivation Theory

Background and Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the constructs of protection motivation theory (PMT) for predicting seat-belt use in front seat passenger on urban transportation.  Methods: In this cross sectional study, 328 participants who traveled in urban streets during the past week as a front seat passenger during February to May 2018 were selected through multistage cluste...

Re: "Mortality reduction with air bag and seat belt use in head-on passenger car collisions".

Crandall et al. (1) used a matched-pair case-control study design to estimate the effects of air bags and seat belts on the mortality of drivers involved in traffic crashes. The authors defined a case as a driver who died and a control as a driver who lived. The matched pairs were the drivers in two passenger cars that collided head-on in the United States. The authors claimed that they were ab...

Mortality reduction with air bag and seat belt use in head-on passenger car collisions.

To assess the efficacy of occupant protection systems, the authors measured the mortality reduction associated with air bag deployment and seat belt use for drivers involved in head-on passenger car collisions in the United States. They used a matched case-control design of all head-on collisions involving two passenger cars reported to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System in 1992-1997, and d...