Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Safety Belt Usage (2005) / Chapter Skim
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, then the vehicle must have had only a lap belt. Of those drivers who were assumed to have only a lap belt, it was assumed they were wearing their safety belts at the same rates as those who had a visible harness.
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As documented in Chapter 5, safety, laws, and family all played a role in why users chose to wear a safety belt regularly. But when drivers were partial users or strong non-users, the latter reasons did not appear to play a role in increasing safety practices such as safety belt usage.
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. Other studies have found that while any type of program had some effect on increasing safety belt use rates, law and incentive programs produced the highest increase in use (Johnston, Hendricks, and Fike 1994)
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It also drew a comparison between primary and secondary state safety belt laws. The researchers concluded through their analysis that if all states moved toward a primary enforcement policy, national rates of safety belt use would increase 9% to 77% and 500 lives would be saved annually.
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