Effects of mandatory seatbelt use laws on highway fatalities in 1985

Final Report January 1985-December 1985PDFTech ReportDOT-HS-807-083DOT-TSC-NHTSA-87-3HS7 7 0 / S7 0 0 9Seat beltsFatalitiesAccident causesTraffic accidentsFederal lawsUnited States. National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationHoxie, PaulSkinner, DavidJohn A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITYNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human FactorsVolpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference CenterBTS Data DirectoryEach year between 40,000 and 50,000 people die in highway accidents. Mandatoryseatbelt use laws (MULs) promise a substantial reduction in both highway fatalitiesand the severity of non-fatal accidents. A pooled rross-section time-series modelis constructed to estimate the effectiveness of MULs in the nine states and Districtof Columbia where they were implemented in 1985. It is estimated that because ofMULs 258 lives were saved in 1985