Forensic Engineering Hub » Seat Belt http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog Info about all fields of engineering, new developments in forensic engineering, current events, and trends in the industry. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:58:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Commercial Seat Belt Usage Improves to 74% http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/23/commercial-seat-belt-usage-improves-to-74/ http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/23/commercial-seat-belt-usage-improves-to-74/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:55:10 +0000 Garrick Infanger http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/?p=947 Semi

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 percentage of safety belt usage in the US. The lowest rated region in the US was the Northeast with only sixty-four percent.

Commercial Safety Belt usage by region:

  • Northeast 64%
  • Midwest 68%
  • South 75%
  • West 79%

Overall, commercial truck drivers increased safety belt usage from sixty-five percent in 2007 to seventy-four percent in 2009.

]]> http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/23/commercial-seat-belt-usage-improves-to-74/feed/ 0 50th Anniversary: Three-Point Seat Belt http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/50th-anniversary-three-point-seat-belt/ http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/50th-anniversary-three-point-seat-belt/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:16:25 +0000 Garrick Infanger http://www.armstrongforensic.com/blog/?p=378 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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