Lack of Safety Restraints
Safety restraints are designed to reduce the risk of harm by keeping occupants securely in place during a collision. Figure 9 and Table 14 summarize crashes where restraint usage is known and applicable, and an unrestrained driver or occupant died or was injured. Of the 1,226 such crashes, 290 of them were KSI crashes. They accounted for just 1.8% of all crashes, but 11.2% of KSI crashes. This indicates that crashes that involve a lack of restraint can be six times more likely to result in severe injuries or fatalities (as shown in Table 14 ).
Figure 9: Percentage of Lack of Restraint Crashes
Table 14: Crashes by Reported Lack of Safety Restraint, All Modes, 2019-2023
Lack of Restraint Crash
# of KSI Crashes
% of KSI Crashes
% of Crashes that Resulted in KSI
# of Crashes
% of Crashes
1,226
1.8%
290
11.2%
Yes
23.7%
67,710
98.2%
2,299
88.8%
No
3.4%
Total
68,936
100%
2,589
100%
3.8%
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