2024年10月10日 · Seat belts are essential safety equipment. For drivers and front-seat passengers, using a lap and shoulder belt reduces the risk of fatal injury by 60% in an SUV, van or pickup and by 45% in a car. Although the vast majority of people buckle up, there are still some who refuse or forget. Nearly half of people who die in crashes are not belted.

2024 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Seat Belt Reminder System Test and Rating Protocol (Version II

While belt fit varies depending on the specific vehicle and the individual child, IIHS booster ratings were developed to take the guesswork out of finding boosters likely to provide good fit for typical 4- to 8-year-olds in a range of vehicles.

2024年10月10日 · Automakers have moved quickly to install louder, more persistent seat belt reminders since the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety began rating the features in 2022. The first year, only 17% of the new models tested earned a good rating, while 65% were rated marginal or poor. But manufacturers have already flipped those numbers.

2014年11月6日 · The lap belt should lie flat across the upper thighs and not on the tummy. To use a safety belt, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommends that children should be able to keep their back against the seat, with their knees naturally bent over the seat edge and their feet flat on the floor.

However, safety belt violations may be issued at license and registration checkpoints to drivers cited for other offenses. ↩ Footnote 20 Until 7/1/2018, citations will be issued only if the person has been previously issued a warning that the operation of or being a passenger in a vehicle without wearing a properly adjusted and fastened ...

2017年8月3日 · In the survey, 57 percent of passengers in hired vehicles reported always using their belt in the rear seat, compared with 74 percent of passengers in personal vehicles. "If your cab or ride-hailing driver is involved in a crash, you want that safety belt," Jermakian says. "Even if state law says belts are optional, go ahead and buckle up anyway.

Newer airbags have a safety belt sensor and use an algorithm to decide whether to deploy the bag in a given crash, depending on whether people are using safety belts. For unbelted occupants, a front airbag will typically deploy when the crash is the equivalent of an impact into a rigid wall at 10-12 mph.

Seat belts: Restrictions on riding in pickup beds. Making roads and vehicles safer for everyone. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent, nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from motor vehicle crashes through research and evaluation and through education of consumers, …

2017年8月3日 · using their safety belt than passengers in personal vehicles. In the survey, 57 per-cent of passengers in hired vehicles report-ed always using their belt in the rear seat, compared with 74 percent of passengers in personal vehicles. “If your cab or ride-hailing driver is in-volved in a crash, you want that safety belt,” Jermakian says.