Intelligent seat belt reminders - Do they change driver seat belt use in Europe?

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 446-449

  Lie, Anders ^a,b   Krafft, Maria ^a,c   Kullgren, Anders ^a,c   Tingvall, Claes ^b,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm and Folksam Research   (Sweden)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Seat Belt; Seat Belt Reminder; Seat Belt Use

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REMINDER SYSTEM; SEATBELT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RISK-TAKING; SEAT BELTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 53549127541     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580802149690     Document Type: Article

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