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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 |
15,548 |
15,688 |
15,383 |
226,567 |
| Air
bagsc |
730 |
536 |
783 |
973 |
1,208 |
1,491 |
1,716 |
1,978 |
2,324 |
2,519 |
2,660 |
2,752 |
2,796 |
22,466 |
| Motorcycle
helmets |
15,076 |
624 |
617 |
627 |
660 |
745 |
872 |
947 |
992 |
1,173 |
1,324 |
1,554 |
1,658 |
26,869 |
| Age
21 minimum legal drinking age |
14,816 |
851 |
846 |
846 |
861 |
901 |
922 |
927 |
922 |
918 |
927 |
882 |
890 |
25,509 |
| Child
restraints |
3,107 |
408 |
480 |
444 |
438 |
447 |
479 |
388 |
383 |
447 |
455 |
424 |
425 |
8,325 |
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 2006 (Washington DC:
2007), http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/TSF2006FE.PDF as of Mar. 26, 2008.
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