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It reports that the risk of death is increased five-fold by the presence of an unrestrained rear seat passenger, and that the increase is even greater in frontal impacts. This report reviews the paper to see whether its results are reliable and can be applied to British conditions. The review finds two serious problems with the paper.
According to Georgian legislation, passengers in the rear seat of vehicles are currently not required to wear safety belts with the exception of Article 26 of the Georgian Law on Traffic. This Article states that children under the age of three may be transported on the knees of a person (older than 16 years) sitting in the back seat of a car.
1 kwi 1994 · A study of 206 injured rear seat passengers was undertaken over two 4-month periods before and after the introduction of legislation enforcing use of rear seat-belts on 1 July 1991. The...
1 gru 1994 · Inspired by the "success" of the law compelling people to wear seat belts in the front seats of cars, the British Government, in September 1989, made seat belt wearing compulsory for children under 14 years old in the rear seats of cars. Fig. 7 shows the outcome measured in accident statistics.
1 lut 2019 · Those living in primary law states were significantly more likely than those in secondary law states or those in no law states to report always wearing a seat belt when riding in the rear seat. Weaker associations were seen between rear seat belt use and sex (p = 0.06) and marital status (p = 0.03).
1 wrz 2020 · New finding indicates that states with stricter seatbelt laws, that is primary law for all front- and rear-seat occupants, exhibit higher seatbelt use compliance rates than those with lesser strict (partial primary/secondary laws) or no seatbelt law.
Expanding the focus of safety to the rear seat, through such means as advanced designs, education, outreach, and strengthened laws, would reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries of rear-seated passengers.
