Seat belts are highly effective in protecting vehicle occupants and significantly reducing their risk of being fatally or seriously injuries in a crash. They are designed to work as a key part of a wider occupant restraint system that includes airbags, head restraints, vehicle seats and structure.
The latest seat belts are designed to work as part of the vehicles smart restraint system.
Three point seat belts are most effective, but lap belts nevertheless provide significant levels of protection.
Seat belt laws increase seat belt use, and so reduce death and injury.
Although seatbelt wearing rates are high, not everyone wears a seatbelt all of the time. Seatbelt use in the rear of a vehicle is consistently lower than in the front.
Seatbelt wearing can be improved by increasing positive attitudes towards seatbelt use, rather than relying on fear appeals. The benefits of wearing seatbelts need to be promoted, and the perceived reasons for not wearing seatbelts reduced.
Enhancing positive normative views of seatbelt wearing behaviour may have more impact on an individual’s seatbelt use than increasing their perception of the risk of injury. However, some people intent on taking risks may actively seek to behave in ways that are considered socially undesirable. The normative views of their immediate peers would, therefore, need specific targeting.
As intentions predict behaviour, studies recommended that planning and coping strategies be promoted to help people adhere to their good intentions. Planning and coping strategies may help to embed seatbelt wearing behaviour and thereby form resilient seatbelt wearing habits.
Although an increase in perceived risk of injury or accident seems to have little direct impact on seatbelt wearing behaviour, individuals who reported always wearing their seatbelt also reported significantly higher perceived risk of legal penalty than those who do not always wear a seatbelt.
Visible police enforcement appears to increase both perceived risk of legal penalty and actual seatbelt use. Enhanced enforcement programmes consisting of highly visible and publicised periods of seatbelt law enforcement have been found to increase seatbelt wearing rates and reduce injuries.
It is unclear, however, whether it is the risk of being stopped by the police, or the threat of legal penalties that has the greatest impact. This distinction is important if seatbelt diversion schemes are to be promoted whereby offenders are offered an educational intervention in lieu of a fixed penalty
Seat belts are highly effective in protecting vehicle occupants and significantly reducing their risk of being fatally or seriously injuries in a crash. They are designed to work as a key part of a wider occupant restraint system that includes airbags, head restraints, vehicle seats and structure.The latest seat belts are designed to work as part of the vehicles smart restraint system.Three point seat belts are most effective, but lap belts nevertheless provide significant levels of protection.Seat belt laws increase seat belt use, and so reduce death and injury.Although seatbelt wearing rates are high, not everyone wears a seatbelt all of the time. Seatbelt use in the rear of a vehicle is consistently lower than in the front.Seatbelt wearing can be improved by increasing positive attitudes towards seatbelt use, rather than relying on fear appeals. The benefits of wearing seatbelts need to be promoted, and the perceived reasons for not wearing seatbelts reduced.Enhancing positive normative views of seatbelt wearing behaviour may have more impact on an individual’s seatbelt use than increasing their perception of the risk of injury. However, some people intent on taking risks may actively seek to behave in ways that are considered socially undesirable. The normative views of their immediate peers would, therefore, need specific targeting.As intentions predict behaviour, studies recommended that planning and coping strategies be promoted to help people adhere to their good intentions. Planning and coping strategies may help to embed seatbelt wearing behaviour and thereby form resilient seatbelt wearing habits.Although an increase in perceived risk of injury or accident seems to have little direct impact on seatbelt wearing behaviour, individuals who reported always wearing their seatbelt also reported significantly higher perceived risk of legal penalty than those who do not always wear a seatbelt.Visible police enforcement appears to increase both perceived risk of legal penalty and actual seatbelt use. Enhanced enforcement programmes consisting of highly visible and publicised periods of seatbelt law enforcement have been found to increase seatbelt wearing rates and reduce injuries.It is unclear, however, whether it is the risk of being stopped by the police, or the threat of legal penalties that has the greatest impact. This distinction is important if seatbelt diversion schemes are to be promoted whereby offenders are offered an educational intervention in lieu of a fixed penalty
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