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Table 2-30: Estimated Number of Lives Saved by Occupant
Protection, Motorcycle Helmets, and Drinking Age Law
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Safety beltsa,b |
68,940 |
9,882 |
10,710 |
11,259 |
11,680 |
11,941 |
12,882 |
13,295 |
14,264 |
15,095 |
15,434 |
195,382 |
Air
bagsc |
730 |
536 |
783 |
973 |
1,208 |
1,491 |
1,716 |
1,978 |
2,324 |
2,519 |
2,647 |
16,905 |
Motorcycle
helmets |
(R)
15,076 |
(R) 624 |
(R) 617 |
(R) 627 |
(R) 660 |
(R) 745 |
(R) 872 |
(R) 947 |
(R) 992 |
1,173 |
1,316 |
23,649 |
Age
21 minimum legal drinking age |
14,816 |
851 |
846 |
846 |
861 |
901 |
922 |
927 |
922 |
918 |
923 |
23,733 |
Child
restraints |
3,107 |
408 |
480 |
444 |
438 |
447 |
479 |
388 |
383 |
447 |
451 |
7,472 |
KEY: R = revised.
a Represents all adults and
children age 5 and older. Data are for
passenger vehicles, which include cars, light trucks, vans, pickups, and
utility vehicles. Excludes medium and
heavy trucks.
b In 2002, the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revised its method for estimating lives
saved by safety belts. The previous
method included survey data from states with and without belt use laws. The current method relies on
police-reported restraint use information for each individual occupant
fatality. Also, the estimate now
includes lives saved in passenger vehicles at all seating positions, where
previously it had been front outboard positions only.
c In 2002, the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration revised the method for calculating lives saved
by air bags.
SOURCE
U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts 2004
Early Edition (Washington DC: 2005),
Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2004EE.pdf as
of Nov. 18, 2005.
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