Preventing Injuries and Deaths from Vehicle Crashes

Encouraging Belts and Discouraging Booze
  • E. Scott Geller
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Part of the Social Psychological Applications to Social Issues book series (SPAS, volume 1)

Abstract

Injury is the primary cause of lost person-years of productive life in the United States (Waller, 1987). The number of years lost annually to injuries of Americans exceed those lost from cancer by 2.4 million years and heart disease by 2.0 million years of life (Injury in America, 1985). Injury from motor vehicle crashes account for approximately 45% of the total (Sleet, 1987). In 1985 alone, approximately 43,800 people in the United States died in traffic accidents, and 3.5 million were injured (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1986). Vehicle crashes are the single leading cause of death and injury to Americans between the ages of 4 and 35 (McGinnis, 1984) and were estimated to cost the nation approximately $69.5 billion in 1984 (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1985), ranking second only to cancer (Hartunian, Smart, & Thompson, 1981).

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Seat Belt Apply Behavior Analysis Safety Belt Reward Program Beer Consumption 
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  1. 1.Department of PsychologyVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburgUSA

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