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Seatbelt usage among Nevada motorists is at all-time highs, although the numbers could possibly be greater. However, in one category of motorists, seat belt usage rates have remained consistently low. Teen motorists have lower seatbelt rates compared to adult motorists, and this places them at serious risk of being injured or even killed when they are involved in an accident.
The Governors Highway Safety Association recently released a report titled Getting It to Click: Connecting Teens and Seatbelts. The agency examined effective programs that could help teens buckle in. The report analyzed the best and most effective seatbelt enforcement programs from around the country, and promising new programs that are currently being implemented in several states, and made recommendations for the success of such teen safety programs.
The GHSA panel found that the most effective programs to get more teenagers to wear seatbelts, include stronger laws, requiring teenagers to buckle up while driving, as well as better law enforcement and peer-to-peer efforts. Other elements of an effective seatbelt enforcement program for teenagers were greater participation of parents in getting teenagers to buckle up while driving, community participation, use of social media because teenagers are heavy users of Facebook, incentive programs and other resources targeting diverse audiences.
Targeting teenage motorists has never been easy. This is a demographic that has a very low attention span, and targeting adult motorists can be much more much easier and less complicated. The report suggests that states use not just one of the strategies, but a combination of all of the strategies to reach the maximum number of teenage motorists, and increase seatbelt rates.
Seatbelts have saved thousands of lives in accidents, since these became mandatory on all automobiles. However, researchers have found that the best strategy to prevent injuries in an accident, is a combination of airbags and seatbelts.
