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Table 6-8 Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Use: 2000 and 2010-2015(a)

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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Percent

  2000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Overall Safety Belt Use 71 85 84 86 87 87 89
Drivers 72 86 84 87 88 87 89
Right-Front Passengers 68 83 82 84 85 86 87
Passenger cars 74 86 85 87 88 88 90
Vans and sport utility vehicles U 88 87 89 90 89 90
Pickup trucks U 75 74 77 78 77 81
Motorcycle Helmet Useb 71 54 66 60 60 64 U
Operators 72 55 67 63 62 67 U
Passengers 62 51 64 46 50 51 U

KEY: U = data are unavailable.

a Seat belt use is as of the Fall each year. Motorcycle helmet use is as of the Fall each year.

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 (USDOT), 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 May 2016 as cited in USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 2-30, available at http://www.bts.gov as of May 2016.