Effects of North Carolina's mandatory safety belt law on children.

Effects of a mandatory safety belt law on hospital admissions.

Although the effectiveness of automobile safety belts in reducing risk of serious injury in traffic crashes is well documented, safety belt use in many U.S. jurisdictions remains low. Michigan's mandatory safety belt law for front-seat occupants, implemented in July 1985, is one of 34 similar laws in the United States intended to increase belt use and reduce crash-related injuries. Using time-s...

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...

The medical effects of seat-belt legislation in the United Kingdom: one viewpoint from the USA.

Britain introduced a belt-use law in July 1981 to become effective on 31 January 1983, a full 13 years after Australia. In the USA, priority was given to laws requiring infants and young children to be appropriately restrained so that between 1977 and 1984 all 50 states and the District of Colombia enacted child passenger safety laws. It was not until 12 July 1984 that New York became the first...

A brief review of North Carolina's law on dying.

Trends in driver and front-right passenger safety belt use in Michigan: 1984-1998.

As part of Michigan's effort to track trends in safety belt use within the state over time, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute conducted 20 statewide surveys of safety belt use between 1984 and 1998. Results indicate that Michigan safety belt use trends for drivers and front-right passengers are similar to other statewide and national trends. Belt use in Michigan incre...