TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Seatbelt non-use and car crash injury: an interview study
JO  - Traffic injury prevention
A1  - Blows, S.
A1  - Ivers, Rebecca Q.
A1  - Connor, J.
A1  - Ameratunga, Shanthi N.
A1  - Ameratunga, Mark
A1  - Norton, R.
SP  - 117
EP  - 119
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between seatbelt non-use at the time of a crash, habitual non-use of seatbelts, and car crash injury; and to calculate the population attributable risk for car crash injury due to seatbelt non-use. METHODS: A population-based case control, interview study in Auckland, New Zealand, with 571 injured or killed drivers as cases and 588 population-based controls randomly selected from the driving population. RESULTS: Unbelted drivers had 10 times the risk of involvement in an injury crash compared to belted drivers after adjustment for multiple confounders. Habitual non-users were likely to be unbelted when involved in a crash. The population attributable risk for seatbelt non-use was 13%. CONCLUSIONS: Non-use of seatbelts is very strongly associated with increased injury crash involvement. Even where seatbelt use rates are higher than 90%, there remains a small group of habitual non-users who are at high risk; these drivers may benefit from targeted interventions.
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SN  - 1538-9588
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389580590931572
ID  - ref1
ER  -