● The rear seat belt is defined as a passive safety feature that prevents occupants from sustaining injury due to internal collision inside the vehicle.
● Approximately 350 deaths in Malaysia every year are due to accidents related to unbelted rear passengers.
● If 20% of road users in Malaysia were to use rear seatbelts, 21 lives could be saved per year.
● An 80% usage of rear seat belts has the potential of saving 84 lives per year.
● Apart from reducing injury severity of passengers, rear seat belts have also been proven to save the lives of front passengers. International studies revealed that there is an 84% chance that unbelted rear passengers could kill the front passengers and themselves during a collision. In crashes, front passengers secured by seat belts are five-times more likely to die from being hit in the back of the head as a result of unbelted rear passengers being thrown forward by the violent force that can be equivalent to almost three-and-a-half tonnes.
■ Source: An Assessment of Rear Seat Belt Availability and Accessibility in Malaysia — A Preliminary Study, Malaysian Institute Of Road Safety Research, 2008.
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