{"id":8600,"date":"2019-05-03T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:39:51","slug":"iihs-persistent-seat-belt-reminders-could-save-1500-lives-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/iihs-persistent-seat-belt-reminders-could-save-1500-lives-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"IIHS: persistent seat belt reminders could save 1,500 lives per year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Persistent audible belt reminders are no less effective at\npromoting belt use than interlocks, according to research by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihs.org\/\">Insurance Institute for\nHighway Safety (IIHS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And researchers found that persistent reminders could save\nnearly 1,500 lives a year if all vehicles were equipped with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IIHS researchers conducted two studies that build off\nearlier research about the best ways to close the remaining belt use gaps. Seat\nbelts reduce the risk of death among front-row occupants in crashes by 45\npercent. About 90 percent of drivers and front passengers use seat belts, but\nnearly half of front-seat occupants killed in crashes aren\u2019t belted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first of the new studies, 49 part-time belt users who\nhad recently received a seat belt citation drove two vehicles with different\nseat-belt reminders or a speed-limiting interlock for one week each. The data was\ncombined with data from an earlier study, also involving part-time belt users\nwith recent citations, that compared a gear-shift interlock with an audible\nbelt reminder consisting of three seven-second periods of chiming, a minute or\nmore apart (see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihs.org\/iihs\/sr\/statusreport\/article\/52\/8\/2\">Gearshift\ninterlocks could get more people to buckle up<\/a>\u201d, Nov. 21, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the latest research, some participants first drove a car\nwith the same fairly minimal belt reminder as used in the first study. They\nthen drove either a car with a 100-second audible reminder or a car with an\naudible reminder that lasted indefinitely, until the person buckled. A third\ngroup drove cars with the 100-second reminder first and then a car equipped\nwith a prototype speed-limiting interlock. The interlock restricted vehicle\nspeed to 15 mph if either the driver or front passenger was unbelted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers concluded that the speed-limiting interlock,\nthe indefinite reminder and the 100-second constant reminder all increased belt\nuse by 30-34 percent compared with the intermittent reminder. The gear-shift\ninterlock increased belt use 16 percent relative to the intermittent reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers calculated that increasing belt use by 34\npercent in all vehicles on U.S. roads would save 1,489 lives each year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We expected the interlocks to be more effective than\nany type of belt reminder, but that didn&#8217;t turn out to be the case,\u201d said HLDI\nSenior Research Scientist David Kidd, the study\u2019s lead author. \u201cMany people\nsimply forget to buckle up, so a persistent reminder works well for them. For\nthose who are really averse to using the seat belt, an interlock doesn\u2019t always\nhelp because they can find a way to get around it, for example by buckling the\nbelt behind their back or sitting on top of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persistent audible belt reminders are no less effective at promoting belt use than interlocks, according to research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). And researchers found that persistent reminders could save nearly 1,500 lives a year if all vehicles were equipped with them. 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