The following papers were presented at the symposium: a report of the efforts throughout the world to increase seat belt usage (pulley,ch); twenty years of safety belt experience and the effect of safety belt legislation in sweden (bohlin,ni); development and effects of seat belt laws in australia (joubert,pn); seat belt effectiveness; possible benefits and advertising (prentice,haj); drivers' cognition of seat belt - cross-cultural differences (asai,m); medical aspects of seat belt usage (trinca,gw); death and injuries prevented by lap-shoulder belt usage in the united states (huelke,df); seat belt effectiveness (campbell,bj); effects of seat belt use and example of injuries (sato,tb); execution and result of questionnaire on seat belt user (shiroshita,h); enaction of seat belt use laws in france (gerondeau,cl); laws on mandatory seat belt use in germany and short evaluation of the international literature on seat belts (seidenstecher,k); seat belt legislation in ontario, canada: its history and effects (snow,jw); psychological aspect of seat belt use - image and attitude for seat belt (nagayama,y); settlement of damages for automobile accidents in japan (kato,i).For abstracts of the papers presented at the conference see B 16574 - B 16587.
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