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Citation

Harris LS, Wright RK. Proc. Am. Assoc. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1974; 18: 30-36.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1974, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

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Abstract

A series of auto driver and passenger fatalities is reported in which each of the deceased was using a voluntary belt restraint system ("lap belts" or "3-point belts") at the moment of the fatal crash. A reconstruction of each lethal episode, based upon vehicle examination, police reports and autopsy data, leads to the following conclusions; with rare exceptions, deaths occurred in spite of and not because of belt use; 2-point lap belts do not consistently prevent fatal injury in high speed crashes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however a comparison of fatality incidence in belted versus non- belted victims yields a significant degree of non-representation of belt users in the total crash fatality population.

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