Seat Belt in UK Law
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Analyzing seat belt usage from accident data
Intensive traffic enforcement has been shown to promote the compliance of roadway motorists and reduce traffic violations. However, prior research on seat belt enforcement has generally neglected t...
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Is Anti-Paternalism Enough?
The article addresses the question of how sufficiency for the imprudent may be ensured. Imprudent conduct includes both spectacular acts such as jumping from heights into water, and everyday acts a......... and everyday acts and omissions such as neglecting to fasten one’s seat-belt. We argue that to avoid thoroughly bad or insufficient situations, ......
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Impact of traffic Enforcement on Traffic Safety
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) have a huge cost to society in terms of death, injury and property damage. The cost of fatal MVCs alone is estimated at US $44 billion per year. Among many confounding .........The modeling results showed that higher numbers of speeding and seat belt cit ations reduce the number of c rashes significantly. Th ese ......
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Do Seat-Belts Reduce Road Casualties? Safety Interventions and Changes in the Driver's Behaviour
......Certainly the potential ofseat-belts in reducing casualty rates is difficult to fault. For a givenseverity of collision, seat-belt use limits motionofthe self within thevehicle and ejection from the vehicle. Particularly compelling evidencecomes from UScases in which a vehicle ......
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Seat Belts And Crash Helmets
...... in a trafic accident have been needlessly aggravated by his unreasonable failure (in a car) to use an available seat belt or (on a motor cycle) to wear a crash helmet. A defendant seeking to reduce or extinguish a claim on these grounds must ......
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Statistics for, Death and Injury on the Roads: What Do They Tell Us about Risk and Safety Engineering?
A reasonable strategy for reducing road casualties should reside in safety engineering: seat-belts; airbags; ABS brakes; water-repellent road-surfaces; and the like. Yet, for some time there have b......... reducing road casualties should reside in safety engineering: seat-belts; airbags; ABS brakes; water-repellent road-surfaces; and the ..., many jurisdictions now have legislation enforcing seat- belt use. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that seat-belt use has engendered ......
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...... has been pondering whether or not to make the wearing of seat belts compulsory the civil courts have been struggling with the ...It was felt that wearing a seat belt would have saved him from all his injuries except the broken finger. ......
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Road-Rage: Have Cars Become Too Safe and Comfortable?
The current crop of road-rage incidents may, in part, reflect the increasing safety and comfort of modern cars. According to risk-homeostasis theory, improved safety is counteracted by riskier beha......... jurisdictions -including of course theUK - have introduced compulsory seat-belt use. While this has invariablyreduced casualties when initially ......
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Recent Book: Lomax & Reynolds: Arrears Proceedings and Related Matters in the Magistrates' Court
...... of cautioning and verbal warningsonly, on the introduction of the seat belt law.The book is not a direct attack on the day to day accountability ......
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Safety in the Car
......Assum-ing no seat belts are available the occupant will continue forwardandwill be brought ... dashboard.This brings us to the principleofthe safety harness or seat belt. Thisaid is designed to stretch under load to the extentthatit will ......
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