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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Seat belt legislation
		Seat belt legislation is a law or laws put in place to enforce or require, the fitting of seat belts to motor vehicles, or the wearing of seat belts by motor vehicle occupants.
		As a result of such predictions the use of seat belts by vehicle occupants was made compulsory in Victoria, Australia in 1970, followed by the rest of Australia and other countries during the 1970s and 1980s.
		Belt laws, which tend to lead to substantial changes in wearing rates over very short periods, would, if the predictions of up to 50% reductions in fatalities are correct, be expected to demonstrate large scale step changes in fatality figures.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation (2950 words)

	Seat belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seat belts are intended to reduce injuries by stopping the wearer from hitting hard interior elements of the vehicle or from being thrown from the vehicle.
		Evidence of the potential for lap belts to cause separation of the lumbar vertebrae and the sometimes associated paralysis, or "seat belt syndrome", has led to a revision of safety regulations in nearly all of the developed world requiring that all seats in a vehicle be equipped with three-point belts.
		Seat belts were introduced in aircraft for the first time in 1913 and became common in the 1930s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seat_belt (1157 words)

	Seat belt legislation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seat belt legislation is a law or laws put in place to enforce or require the wearing of seat belts while driving, or a passenger in, a vehicle.
		Seat belt use is a binary: the belt is either worn or not.
		Belt laws, which tend to lead to substantial changes in wearing rates over very short periods, would, if the predictions of up to 50% reductions in fatalities are correct, be expected to demonstrate large scale step changes in fatality figures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seat_belt_legislation (2681 words)

	Seat belt - KnowledgeIsFun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A seat belt, sometimes called a safety belt, is a harness designed to hold the occupant of an car or other vehicle in place if a collision occurs.
		Seat belts were introduced in aircraft in the 1930s.
		The effect of seat belt laws influenced the development of the risk compensation hypothesis which argues that car drivers may adjust their driving behaviour adversely in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides.
	www.knowledgeisfun.com /S/Se/Seat-belt.php (826 words)

	Seat Belt Safety -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Seat belt laws are an unwarranted intrusion by government into the personal lives of citizens; they deny through prior restraint the right to determine a person’s own health standards for his own body, the ultimate private property.
		While seat belt use might save some people in certain kinds of traffic accidents, there is ample proof that in other accidents people have been more seriously injured and even killed because of seat belt use.
		In those cases, the malicious nature of seat belt laws is revealed: by law, the victim is subject to a fine for not dying in the accident.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/130/seat-belt-safety.html (1241 words)

	Minnesota laws & legislation: hot topics: seat belt facts
		169.686 requires that a fastened seat belt be worn by: 1) the driver; 2) a passenger riding in the front seat; and 3) a passenger riding in any seat of a passenger vehicle who is older than three but younger than 11 years of age.
		Properly wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury to front seat passengers by 60 percent in a light truck and 45 percent in a car.
		Seat belts are 80 percent effective in preventing deaths in rollovers involving light trucks, and 74 percent effective in rollovers involving passenger cars.
	www.dps.state.mn.us /ots/Laws_Legislation/Legislation/belt_facts.asp (666 words)

	Seat belt Laws : Why You Should be Worried (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the UK the introduction of compulsory seat belts for front seat occupants was accompanied by a 75 per year increase in deaths among rear seat occupants [8].
		Unfortunately, according to the official UK accident statistics the extension of compulsory seat belt wearing to child passengers was accompanied by a 10% increase in fatalities and a 12% increase in injuries among these children [9].
		This argues that seat belt laws haven't had the expected results for vehicle occupants because those drivers who take the most risks are also the least likely to use seat belts [16].
	www.eirbyte.com /gcc/info/seat_belts.html (1808 words)

	Stronger 'buckle up' laws change attitudes among young drivers
		The UCL team surveyed the impact of tougher seat belt laws introduced in 13 European countries and discovered not only that tougher seat belt laws were being observed by this high risk group, but that it had also produced a marked change in their behaviour.
		Their analysis, which was limited to the 13 countries covered by both surveys, compared responses to self-completed, anonymous questionnaires on frequency and perceived importance of seat belt use obtained from 10,376 students in 1990 and 10,294 students in 2000.
		The result, according to Steptoe, was "striking increases in seat belt use." Rates of use went from 56 percent to 80 percent in Spain, from 25 percent to 76 percent in Poland, and from 30 percent to 94 percent in Portugal.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /media/library/buckle (711 words)

	U.S. Department of Transportation - NHTSA - Process and Outcome Evaluation of the Buckle Up America Initiative - DOT HS ...
		Legislation resolving the issue was passed in the 1999 legislative session, reinstating primary enforcement.
		All legislators were also sent the brochure, which cited prominent fl leaders who supported standard seat belt enforcement and suggested that racial profiling is a separate issue.
		According to the Arkansas Seat Belt Coalition, the House was especially vulnerable to constituent concerns; as a result of term limitations, 57 of the 100 members were freshmen.
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /people/injury/research/BuckleUp/iv__legislation.htm (4862 words)

	Seat belt legislation
		Seat belt legislation is a law or laws put in place to enforce or require the wearing of seat belts while driving, or a passenger in, a vehicle.
		At the time this report was published the UK was considering a seat belt law and in response the UK Department of Transport commissioned a study on the effects of seat belt laws in Sweden, West Germany, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands and Norway.
		In the event, the UK's seat belt law was accompanied by actual increases in deaths to pedestrians of 135 per year and of deaths to cyclists of 40 per year (this increase in deaths among these road users represented a 75 year high).
	www.askfactmaster.com /Seat_belt_legislation (1290 words)

	Testimony on Ohio Seat Belt Enforcement Legislation
		Increasing the safety belt use rate is the most effective way of cutting the highway death toll.
		This important safety issue was brought to the forefront in 1994, shortly after the Board initiated a safety study to evaluate the performance of occupant restraint systems for children under the age of 11.
		The current penalty for not wearing a safety belt in Ohio is $25.
	www.ntsb.gov /speeches/s970617.htm (1546 words)

	InfoPEI: Seat Belts
		Seat belts save lives and legislation is the most effective means to increase seat belt use.
		Seat belts, on the other hand, protect the entire body and are effective in all types of collisions.
		Together, seat belts and air bags offer good protection in most collisions, as long as the passenger compartment is not extensively crushed.
	www.gov.pe.ca /infopei/onelisting.php3?number=45866&PHPSESSID=50fd3b5c334a3038cfcac22d62f002e7 (754 words)

	Seat belts use has nothing to do with freedom
		For some reason, the seat belt issue has been an easy rallying point for people who are concerned about personal freedoms and government interference.
		But while other states were accepting seat belt legislation, Massachusetts was acting as if the option of not using seat belts could be equated with the civil rights movement and freedom of speech.
		The argument that whether or not someone else wears a seat belt has no effect on you is wrong.
	enterprise.southofboston.com /articles/2006/01/28/news/opinion/opinion02.txt (692 words)

	Los Angeles Seat Belt Lawyers - The Full Story - California Defective Seat Belt Lawyers, California Seat Belt ...
		Moreover, both the manufacturers of these seat belt system components and the major U.S. automakers installing them have known for at least three decades that these buckle systems were designed to be simple, cheap, and (as a result) particularly vulnerable to unlatching during accidents.
		Although heightened public awareness about seat belt safety in the United States prompted some American automakers to offer seat belts as optional equipment in their vehicle lines, few customers ordered seat belts and they were never made standard equipment in American cars until the mid 1960's.
		The first seat belt to be mass-produced for this purpose in American vehicles in the 1950's and early 1960's closely resembled the type of widely-recognized seat belt buckle still in use on Airliners today, called a "lift-cover" buckle.
	www.seatbeltlaw.com /the_story.html (4517 words)

	KSKY-AM 660 : News Talk - Where your opinion counts
		He actually affirms that the revenue derived, even from good seat belt legislation, is another way for the government to tax the people.
		He says the seat belt issue "is particularly important to me given my personal views on any freedom we enjoy as Americans.
		But, I do not support the proposed Seat Belt Legislation for a number of reasons, not the least of which are principles of liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
	www.ksky.com /weblogs/dean/date02212005.aspx (2018 words)

	ireland
		Their findings were that fatalities to front seat occupants dropped by 460/yr, fatalities to pedestrians increased by 135/yr, fatalities to cyclists increased by 40/yr and fatalities to rear seat occupants increased by 75/yr.
		The 1989 introduction in Britain of compulsory seat belt wearing for children under 14 in rear seats was accompanied by a disproportionate increase in deaths to such passengers (Adams 1995).
		The report found that seat belt legislation "was followed by an increase in injury rates" and went so far as to predict a 2.3% increase in deaths among car users alone.
	barvennon.com /seatbelt/irish_letter.html (3793 words)

	Irish Times Article - Seat-belts a danger to pedestrians and cyclists
		Nobody disputes that, in the event of an accident, a driver who is wearing a seat belt is better protected than a driver who is unrestrained.
		Seat-belt legislation seems to redistribute the burden of risk from the drivers of vehicles, who were already the most protected, to cyclists and pedestrians, who were already the most vulnerable.
		Legislation to prevent the latter behaviour is effective, legislation to prevent self-harm is not.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/science/2004/0909/2307942376ND_DRAG_REVIL_A.html (920 words)

	Kentucky.gov: - rally_release
		This legislation is a priority of Governor Ernie Fletcher and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
		If the seat belt bill becomes law, at least 62 lives will be saved in the first year.
		A primary seat belt law would give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over a motorist simply for not wearing a seat belt.
	kentucky.gov /Newsroom/kytc.d10/rally_release.htm (776 words)

	Seat Belts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Seat belts are the most effective way to reduce fatalities and serious injuries during automobile crashes.
		Using a seat belt is not only safer, it is the law.
		The seat belt straps in your car can be replaced (at your expense) with longer ones at auto body garages and seat belt centers.
	www.sizewise.com /articles/seatbelts.html (892 words)

	Students Lend Support To Tough Seat Belt Legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Her friend, 16-year-old Katie Marchetti, who had been traveling down Interstate 75 without wearing her seat belt, would not recover from the injuries she suffered when she was thrown from her car March 3 and then run over by another.
		Her friend, Joanna Chastain, was not wearing a seat belt when her car hit a telephone pole in March 2005.
		The bill is named in honor of his daughter, who was not wearing a seat belt when she died in a traffic accident.
	southtampa.tbo.com /southtampa/MGBFUPOXQLE.html (631 words)

	Arkansas News Bureau - Seat belt legislation advances
		Driving without wearing seat belts already is against Arkansas law but is a secondary offense in the state, meaning offenders can be cited only if they are pulled over for some other traffic offense.
		Sarah Bottoms, daughter of former state Rep. Jan Judy of Fayetteville, said a mandatory seat belt law might have saved the life of Bottom's daughter, Brittaney Ann Allen, who was not wearing a seat belt when the died in a traffic accident.
		Seventy-five people who have died in accidents on Arkansas highways this year were not wearing seat belts, she said.
	www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2007/02/27/News/340854.html (479 words)

	Seat Belt Safety Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The legislation, A-1341, sponsored by Assembly members Carol Murphy (R-Morris) and Herb Conaway (D-Burlington) and Senators Louis Kosco (R-Bergen) and Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), upgrades the seat belt law from secondary enforcement to standard enforcement.
		The legislation appeared to be very controversial in the Senate as it passed the house with a vote of 18 to 23, in the last hours of the 208
		NJSNA was an active member of the Seat Belt Safety Coalition of New Jersey including representation from many safety and health related associations from across the state.
	www.njsna.org /govaffairs/seat_belt.htm (718 words)

	New Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although the legislation was voted on by the House in May and fell nine votes short of passing, it finally won approval Tuesday by a 63-44 vote.
		Sen. Walter North, committee chairman said he is opposed to making failure to wear a seat belt a primary offense because it's an educational issue and law enforcement should concentrate on apprehending reckless and drunk drivers.
		Presently, children under he age of 16 must be belted in the back seat of a car unless there are not enough belts to go around.
	www.msu.edu /user/leonejay/belts.htm (645 words)

	Seatbelt Laws : Why You Should be Worried
		In the UK the introduction of compulsory seatbelts for front seat occupants was accompanied by a 75 per year increase in deaths among rear seat occupants [8].
		Unfortunately, according to the official UK accident statistics the extension of compulsory seatbelt wearing to child passengers was accompanied by a 10% increase in fatalities and a 12% increase in injuries among these children [9].
		Concerns about the actual effects of seatbelt legislation were raised with the national authorities in a detailed submission by the Galway Cycling Campaign in October 1998.
	www.geocities.com /galwaycyclist/info/seatbelts.html (1767 words)

	Fitting Seat Belts
		Seat belts are designed to be fitted to (Pre-designated) Anchorage Points, fabricated by the vehicle manufacturer, to help position the webbing correctly and absorb loads in an accident.
		Securon manufacture Seat belt extenders for people who otherwise would be unable to wear the Seat belt.
		Seat Belts are designed to restrain people and we cannot confirm baby seat compatibility.
	www.securon.co.uk /fitting/seat_belts_fitting.htm (396 words)

	ETSC - Seat belt use: Legislation
		EU legislation currently in force (Directive 91/671/EEC) requires that all occupants of passenger cars and light vans use seat belts.
		In 2003, a new Directive (Directive 2003/20/EC) was passed that extends the obligatory use of seat belts to occupants of all motor vehicles, including trucks and coaches.
		The reinforced legislation has to be transposed into national law by 9 May 2006.
	www.etsc.be /enforcement-seatbeltuse-legislation.php (217 words)

	States Support Primary Seat Belt Laws
		The evidence shows that primary seat belt laws should be passed in every state.
		One state (New Hampshire) does not have a seat belt law.
		The top recommendation, passage of a primary seat belt law, was presented by student representatives to the Governor and each chamber of the legislature.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2001/05/21/021277.html (634 words)

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