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Mandatory seat belt use laws. [PDF]
The purposes of this study were to review mandatory seat belt use laws as they have been used around the world, to forecast the impact of such a law in Virginia, and, if appropriate, to propose a mandatory seat belt law for inclusion in the Code of ...
Grey, Joseph +1 more
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Journal of Road Safety, 2019 There is an increased risk of death or serious injury for occupants who did not wear a seat belt in a crash. In New Zealand, between 2006 and 2016, the non-use of seat belts accounted for 19-30% of the overall motor vehicle road deaths, and this figure ...
Lily Hirsch +5 more
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The Effects of Mandatory Seatbelt Laws on Seatbelt Use, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and Crash-Related Injuries among Youths [PDF]
We provide the first comprehensive assessment of the effects of mandatory seatbelt laws on self-reported seatbelt use, highway fatalities, and crash-related injuries among high school age youths using data from the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC ...
Mark Stehr, Christopher S. Carpenter
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In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New Urbanist ideas promoting walkability have many benefits. But they are criticised by proponents of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), who blame street connectivity for facilitating target recognition, providing access and escape routes and weakening informal surveillance.
Jose Pina‐Sánchez, Ian Loader
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Remote SensingTransportation agencies often rely on manual surveys to monitor seat belt compliance; however, these methods are limited by surveyor fatigue, reduced visibility due to tinted windows or low lighting, and restricted geographic coverage, making manual ...
Gideon Asare Owusu +7 more
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The biomechanics and pathogenesis of seat belt syndrome: Literature review
Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2019 BACKGROUND: Seatbelts are the most effective means of providing occupant protection in a vehicular accident. This works by two mechanisms; by preventing ejection from the vehicle which has been reported to be the leading cause of both injury and death in
E O Onuoha Clement, Onuoha Kelechukwu
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Cross‐Prudence and Optimal Prevention
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we study optimal prevention in the presence of a correlated nonfinancial background risk. Under positive correlation, cross‐prudence in the nonfinancial attribute reduces optimal prevention. We establish this result in the most direct extension of the standard prevention problem with binary marginal distributions and show that ...
Jingyuan Li, Richard Peter, Lin Zhou
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Payesh, 2016 Objective (s): Iran is among countries with high road traffic accidents. The use of safety belts is known as the most effective in preventing severity of injuries and deaths caused by road accidents.
Fatemeh Sadeghnejad +3 more
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Use of child restraint system and patterns of child transportation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
PLoS ONE, 2018 ObjectiveChild restraint system (CRS) is designed to protect children from injury during motor vehicle crash (MVC). However, there is no regulation or enforcement of CRS use in Saudi Arabia.
Mohammd Alsanea +2 more
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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