Seat belt and child restraint usage in New South Wales NSW, November-December 1991. Survey on behalf of the New South Wales NSW Roads and Traffic Authority.

Author(s)
Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales RTA, Road Safety Bureau
Year
Abstract

The Road Safety Bureau of the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority has conducted observational surveys of seat belt wearing since 1974. The survey in 1991 was the second time an external consultant was commissioned to conduct the Seat Belt and Child Restraint Usage Survey and Analysis. This report presents a summary of the results of the 1991 survey to monitor seat belt wearing and child restraint usage byoccupants of vehicles under two tonnes in the metropolitan areas of Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong and major country centres in NSW. The survey was conducted in twenty-eight sites in the Sydney metropolitan area, three sites in Newcastle, two in Wollongong and eleven in country areas. The statistical analysis of the survey data has shown that generally the survey data has shown that generally there is a highly significant increase in the wearing rate. This is consistent with the trends over previous years depicted in the wearing rates.

Request publication

10 + 5 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.

Publication

Library number
C 1836 [electronic version only] /83 / IRRD 843117
Source

Rosebery, NSW, Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales RTA, Road Safety Bureau, 1992, 40 p., 4 ref.; Research Note ; RN 2/92 / RTA 92.122 - ISSN 1035-5855 / ISBN 0-7203-6321-9

Our collection

This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.