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原文传递 Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Use in Virginia: The 1999 Update

题名：	Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Use in Virginia: The 1999 Update
作者：	Charles B. Stoke
关键词：	motorcycle helmet use observational survey safety belt use seat belt use traffic safety use rate
摘要：	This series of surveys to determine the safety belt and motorcycle helmet use rates in Virginia was initiated to qualify the Commonwealth for incentive funds in accordance with the requirements of Section 153 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. To receive funds, states had to have laws requiring the use of safety belts and motorcycle helmets and to meet certain use rate standards. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration specified the survey criteria to be used in determining a state’s use rate. Even though the § 153 funding program ended in 1994, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles requested that data collection continue and that the same methods, procedures, and sites be used for all future survey efforts. In addition, there is a new grant program. Section 157 of TEA- 21, which requires the same methodology for determining use as was used in the earlier program. This report describes die methodology used for site selection and data collection and adds the results of die 1999 survey to those for the previous years (1992-98). The results show that Virginia’s 1999 safety belt use rate was 69.9% and its motorcycle helmet use rate was 99.1%. The he’met use rate had been 100% in die first 5 years of die study (1992- 1996) and was 98.7% in 1997 and 99.6% in 1998. For the first 7 years the survey was conducted (1992-97), the safety belt use rates were 71.6%, 73.2%, 71.8%, 70.2%, 69.6%, 67.1%, and 73.6%, respectively.
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