2295 injured front seat occupants registered at the Odense University Hospital are analysed to define possible reasons for the lacking effect of the belt mandatory introduced in 1976. Several possible factors are discussed which might counteract the predicted effect of the seat belt legislation.
In: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the International Research Committee on Biokinetics of Impacts (IRCOBI) on the Simulation and Reconstruction of Impacts in Collisions, Lyon, September 12-13, 1978, p. 1-12, 2 fig., 2 graph., 7 tab., 4 ref.
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