Passenger use of and attitudes toward rear seat belts

Jermakian, Jessica S.; Weast, Rebecca A.

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2017.12.006

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“…Though 95% of the respondents said that wearing of seat belt is necessary at all times, only 50% were found wearing seat belt and nearly 75% said that seat belt wearing is necessar y even for rear passengers, but only 5.9% of passengers were found wearing seat belt, in which most of them were front passengers. The reason behind this attitude would be that most of the passengers, especially the rear passengers thinks that they were much safer at back seats (Jermakian and Weast, 2018). Around 40% of drivers reported that seat belts are uncomfortable to wear and this complaint was more with female drivers than the male drivers.…”

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“…The preference of wearing a seat belt use will also varying with the age of driver and passenger (Huang et al, 2011 andMa et al, 2012). Jermakian and Weast, (2018) found that the fatality rate is higher among rear passengers as most of them do not wear seat belt, one of the reason is that the rear passenger believe they are much safer than drivers. The effective use of seat belt can decrease the severity of the injury, prevents chest injury by restraining the driver/passenger chest hitting any object in front (Abu-Zidan et al, 2012 andWang andJiang, 2003).…”

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“…Ma et al, (2012), Pickrell andLi, (2016), Strine et al, (2010), recommend a strategic awareness programs and strict enforcement to improve the rate of seat belt wearing while driving. Jermakian and Weast, (2018), Fernandes et al, (2010), Strine et al, (2010 and Tison et al, (2010) collected socio-demographic variables such as gender and age for analyzing the perspective behavior of passenger car drivers. The driver characteristics and perspective data was collected by different approaches, a few to mention like Ma et al, (2012) adopted roadside interview method, Jermakian and Weast, (2018) and Ranney et al, (2010) used web-based and telephone survey process and Abu-Zidan et al, (2012), Huang et al, (2011) and Ma et al, (2012) collected the data through field observational survey methods.…”

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“…A questionnaire was developed with the predominant questions adopted from literature ( Jermakian andWeast, 2018 andHuang et al, 2011) and most of these questions are in the form of multiple choice for fast answering. Survey was carried through two approaches; one roadside interview and another online response sheet.…”

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Development of Model for Seat Belt Use and Assessment of Perspective Behavior Among Indian Drivers

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The drivers and passengers of motorbikes and cars are vulnerable on Indian roads as they contribute for larger share of proportion in total crashes. The statistics provided by Ministry of Road Transport and Highway (MoRTH) for the year 2017, the respective crash proportional share for drivers and passengers was observed as 34 and 25 percent. Most of these crashes results in fatality and thus contributes for the increases in severity. One of the major reasons for this severity is not wearing seat by the drivers driving cars. This article aims in understanding the perspective of drivers and prediction models towards wearing of seat belt. A generalized linear model (GLM) and negative binomial model (NBM) was developed to find the risk factors influencing for not wearing seat belt and predicting the probability of wearing seat belt. The results exhibits that the variables such as car type, road type, time of day and day of week are found to be significant in predicting the probability of wearing seat belt. The performance of GLM is better than the NBM for prediction of seat belt wearing. It is observed that the nearly 50% of drivers and 94.1% of passengers in rare seat of a car were not wearing seat belts. Seat belt wearing by yellow / taxi plate drivers was found to be 10% less than that of white plate drivers (private vehicles). The results of this study will be useful for reducing the crash severity rates by implementing appropriate awareness and enforcement programs in and around the metropolitan cities.

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Development of Model for Seat Belt Use and Assessment of Perspective Behavior Among Indian Drivers

2020

IJTTE

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“…Burada daha farklı değişkenlerin etkisi olduğu düşünülmektedir. Buna göre, unutma ya da rahatsız olma gibi emniyet kemeri kullanmama sebepleri tüm yolcular ve araç sürücüleri tarafından paylaşılabilirken, arka koltuk yolcularında diğer gruplardan farklı olarak arka koltuğun daha güvenli olduğu, bu yüzden emniyet kemerine ihtiyaç olmadığı yönünde bir inanç olduğunu görülmektedir (Jermakian ve Weast, 2017 (Ekici, 2014;Şimşekoğlu, 2009;Keskin, 2013). Her iki cinsiyetin farklı bölgelerdeki emniyet kemeri kullanımları incelendiğinde, erkekler arasındaki farkın yukarıda değinilen çerçeve ile tutarlı olduğu görülürken, kadınlar arasında bölgelere göre kemer kullanımı farklılaşmamıştır.…”

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İstanbul Şile’de Sürücü ve Yolcuların Emniyet Kemeri Kullanımı: Gözlem Çalışması

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Emniyet kemeri kullanımının trafik kazalarında hayat kurtardığı ve yaralanma riskini önemli derecede azalttığı kanıtlanmasına rağmen Türkiye'de emniyet kemeri kullanım oranları halen yeterli düzeyde bulunmamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, İstanbul ilinin Şile ilçesindeki emniyet kemeri kullanımının araçtaki pozisyona, cinsiyete ve farklı gözlem bölgelerine göre değişip değişmediğinin gözlemlenmesidir. Bu gözlem çalışması farklı bölgelerdeki (Kampüs-içi, Kampüs girişi, Şile Otobanı, Şile Kırsalı) sürücülerden eşit bir örneklem oluşturularak (N = 400) gerçekleştirilmiştir. Emniyet kemeri kullanımına etki eden faktörleri (araçtaki pozisyon, cinsiyet ve bölgeler) analiz etmek amacıyla Ki-Kare Bağımsızlık Testi uygulanmıştır. Verilerin analizi sonucunda emniyet kemeri kullanımı dağılımlarının gözlem bölgeleri, araçtaki pozisyon, cinsiyet ve araç tiplerine göre anlamlı bir şekilde farklılaştığı görülmüştür. Buna göre emniyet kemeri kullanımının; bölgelere göre otobanda, araç içi pozisyona göre ise sürücülerde, cinsiyete göre kadınlarda ve araç tiplerine göre otomobil sürücülerinde diğerlerinden daha yüksek olduğu gözlemlenmiştir. Emniyet kemeri kullanımının pratik sonuçları, araştırmanın güçlü yönleri, katkıları ve sınırlılıkları ilgili alanyazın ışığında tartışılmıştır.

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