Posts Tagged ‘Seat Belt’

Commercial Seat Belt Usage Improves to 74%

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Our friends at the MSCRecon Blog highlight a recent study of commercial truck seat belt usage:

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released a study showing seventy-nine percent of commercial truck drivers in the Western US were using their safety belts in 2009. This region has the highest .Read more...

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50th Anniversary: Three-Point Seat Belt

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

The Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin is credited with inventing the three-point seat belt restraint in 1959 while working at Volvo. The Volvo PV544 was the first car delivered to a dealer with a three-point seat belt and today three-point restraints are standard on most cars around the world.

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