title: The effect of seat belt legislation on injuries sustained by car occupants.
abstract: Details are given of the injuries sustained by 402 car drivers, 209 front seat passengers and 147 back seat passengers involved in road accidents during the two 4-month periods before and after the introduction of the compulsory wearing of seat belts on 1 February 1983. Comparisons are made between the injury patterns in those wearing and not wearing seat belts and in back seat passengers.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000009:adverse effects; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*