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Transcript: SEAT BELT USE BY DRIVERS, PASSENGERS REACHES 75 PERCENT, NHTSA REPORTS
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- September 9, 2002
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Seat belt use is continuing an upward trend in 2002, reaching
75
percent, its highest level since national surveys began in 1994, according
to an announcement today by Jeffrey W. Runge, M.D., Administrator
of the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
States with primary seat belt laws hit another milestone - 80
percent
belt use - while states with secondary laws averaged 69 percent. In
states
with a primary seat belt law, motor vehicle occupants can be stopped
and
cited by law enforcement officials for failing to wear belts whether
or
not another violation has occurred. In states with secondary enforcement,
the vehicle must be stopped for another ...