Safety Belt Use, Ejection and Entrapment

Safety belt use, ejection and entrapment.

One in every five occupants thrown from a car receives fatal injuries. A motorist who uses a safety belt, in all probability, will not be thrown from the car during a crash. The rate of fatal injury for ejected occupants was found to be 40 times the rate for occupants not thrown from their cars, as determined from national accident sampling data. These data refute the popular notion that "being...

Increased safety-belt use--United States, 1991.

From 1980 to 1990, safety-belt use among passenger-vehicle drivers in the United States increased from 11% to 49%; in 1990, use of safety belts prevented approximately 4800 deaths and 120,000 serious injuries among front-seat occupants (1). The increased use of safety belts from 1984 through 1990 was associated primarily with the enactment of state laws (Figure 1). In recent years, however, the...

Effects of safety belt laws on safety belt use by American High School Seniors, 1986-2000.

PROBLEM This manuscript evaluates the effects of enactment of state laws that required safety belt use in various U.S. states between 1986 and 2000. METHOD Safety belt use was assessed using nationally representative cross-sectional samples of high school seniors; evaluation of the effects of laws used data from over 2,000 high school seniors before and about 3,300 after the laws took effect ...

Synaptic Ribbon Conveyor Belt or Safety Belt?

The synaptic ribbon in neurons that release transmitter via graded potentials has been considered as a conveyor belt that actively moves vesicles toward their release sites. But evidence has accumulated to the contrary, and it now seems plausible that the ribbon serves instead as a safety belt to tether vesicles stably in mutual contact and thus facilitate multivesicular release by compound exo...

A statewide intervention to increase safety belt use: adding to the impact of a belt use law.