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Performance of Rear Seat Belt Restraints
Technical Paper
2003-01-0155
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Field experience has consistently indicated that lap-only belts and lap-shoulder belts perform well and about equally in prevention of fatalities and serious injuries in the rear seating positions. Analyses based on overall usage and injury figures from the Fatal Analysis Reporting System (FARS), double-pair analysis of FARS data, and still older data bases have shown that, in the rear outboard seating positions, injury rates are about the same for lap-only and lap-shoulder belted crash occupants. Although sparse, recently available field data from the 1988-2001 National Analysis Sampling System / Crashworthiness Data System (NASS/CDS) files confirm the finding that, when used by rear seat occupants, lap-only belts perform about equally with lap-shoulder belts as countermeasures for serious and fatal injury in severe frontal crashes.
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Warner, C., Meissner, U., and Bandstra, R., "Performance of Rear Seat Belt Restraints," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-0155, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-0155.Also In
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