RTSSC Research Reports
Report Details

Title:	ND Youth Occupant Protection Survey: 2016 Pilot Design and Implementation
Publication Date:	Sep 2017
Type:	Issue Brief

Abstract

Traffic crashes are a leading cause of death for North Dakota youth. Previous research shows that risk for fatal and serious injury increases by 50% to 70% when occupants fail to use safety restraint systems. In this pilot year of the study, occupant restraint use in traffic crashes was collected to assess the need to increase youth occupant protection rates. Overall, the statewide youth occupant protection use rate for North Dakota was 95.7% based on probability weighting for observations collected in a youth occupant protection field survey. The youngest group was more often restrained at 99.2%; 4-9 year olds use at 95.1%; and 10-14 year olds at 92.6%.