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Safety Belt Usage Survey in Kentucky, 2015.
| 题名： | Safety Belt Usage Survey in Kentucky, 2015. |
| 作者： | Agent, K. R.; Green, E. R.; Fields, M. A. |
| 关键词： | Seat belt usage, Child safety seats, Survey, Child restraint system, Data collection, Injury prevention, Law enforcement, Safety programs, Statistical program, Usage rates, Kentucky |
| 摘要： | The use of safety belts and child safety seats has been shown to be an effective means of reducing injuries to motor-vehicle occupants involved in traffic crashes. There have been various methods used in efforts to increase safety belt and safety seat usage. Past efforts have included public information campaigns, local and statewide legislation, and enforcement of the legislation. Most recently, Kentucky changed the statewide legislation requiring the use of safety belts for all vehicle occupants from secondary to primary enforcement. A statewide law providing secondary enforcement was passed in 1994, with the primary enforcement law passed in 2006. The first legislation in this area in Kentucky was a law enacted by the 1982 Kentucky General Assembly. This required the use of a “child restraint system” for children 40 inches or less in height. Prior to the statewide law, local safety belt usage laws were enacted in several jurisdictions in Kentucky. The first such local law, which became effective in July 1990, was enacted by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Statewide observational surveys were first conducted in Kentucky in 1982 and have been conducted annually to document safety belt and safety seat usage. Following the enactment of the statewide secondary law, safety belt usage among drivers increased each survey year, from four percent in 1982 to 58 percent in 1994. The rate has steadily climbed since 1994. Examples of the increasing rates are 60 percent in 2000, 66 percent in 2004, 73 percent in 2008, and 86 percent in 2014. Statewide usage of child safety seats (CSS) or safety belts for children under four years of age increased from about 15 percent in 1982, before enactment of the mandatory child restraint law, to 30 percent for 1984 through 1986. After a financial penalty was added to the law, this percentage increased to almost 50 percent in 1988. There has been a continued increase in usage, with rates of reaching 98 percent in recent years. However, while usage rates are very high, studies have found problems with the proper use of child safety seats. The survey methodology used to collect data has been revised slightly a few times. For several years, the statewide belt use survey was based on 200 observation sites in 58 counties taken in the weeks immediately after completing the annual “Click It or Ticket” (CIOT) campaigns. Enforcement and publicity activities related to this campaign typically finish around Memorial Day. Mini-surveys (taken at 21 of the 200 statewide sites) were taken prior to the CIOT, in April, and during the enforcement phase of the CIOT. The relatively large number of sites scattered in so many counties made data collection time-consuming. The most recent survey design (prior to the design used first for the 2013 survey) collected data at 160 sites in 18 counties. |
| 总页数： | Agent, K. R.; Green, E. R.; Fields, M. A. |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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