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Pickup Truck Crashes and Restraint Usage, 2005
Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher(s): Indiana University. Center for Urban Policy and the Environment
Author(s): Kathy Lisby; Matt Nagle; Samuel Nunn; Dona Sapp
Funder(s): National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
Funder(s): National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
Topic: Transportation (Traffic and traffic regulation)
Type: Report
Coverage: Indiana
Abstract:
Indiana's seat belt law exempts pickup truck and SUVs that have truck licenses, in spite of the fact that safety belts save lives. This traffic safety fact sheet shows that two-thirds of the people involved in fatal pickup truck accidents in Indiana in 2005 were not wearing seat belts.