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TABLE 7-8 Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Use: 2005-2013

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Excel

Percent

  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Overall Safety Belt Use 82 81 82 83 84 85 84 86 87
Drivers 83 82 83 84 85 86 84 87 88
Passengers 78 78 81 81 82 83 82 84 85
Passenger cars 83 82 84 84 86 86 85 87 88
Vans and sport utility vehicles 85 84 86 86 87 88 87 89 90
Pickup trucks 73 74 72 74 74 75 74 77 78
Motorcycle Helmet Useb 48 51 58 63 67 54 66 60 60
Operators 56 57 59 64 69 55 67 63 62
Passengers 29 33 56 54 55 51 64 46 50

a Seat belt use is as of the Fall each year except in 2005 (June). Motorcycle helmet use is as of the Fall each year except in 2005 (June).

b Only those operators and riders wearing safety helmets that met U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) standards are counted. Those safety helmets that do not meet DOT standards are treated as if the operator/rider were not wearing a helmet.

NOTE: Occupants of commercial and emergency vehicles are excluded.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts: Research Notes, Seat Belt Use (Annual issues); and Motorcycle Helmet Use—Overall Results (Annual issues), available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov as of June 2014 as cited in USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 2-30, available at http://www.bts.gov as of June 2014.