Kansas Safety Facts

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Kansas Safety Facts
January 2009
Kansas seat belt use rate remains consistently
lower than the national average.
NHTSA estimates that if Kansas were to pass a
primary seat belt law, belt usage could rise by
approximately 10 percentage points.
In 2000, crashes cost Kansas 1.9 billion
About 701 for each resident

• With a primary seat belt law, each year Kansas
  would save about
• 29 lives
• 308 serious injuries
• 79 million in costs
• (Based on a 10 percentage point increase from the
  2007 KS seat belt use rate.)

SAFETEA-LU provides State incentives for the
enactment and enforcement of primary seat belt
laws. If Kansas passes a primary law, the state
would receive about 11.2 Million
Pending confirmation by NHTSAs National Center
for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA)
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78.3 of Kansas motor vehicle traffic fatalities
are in rural areas. The fatality rate in
rural areas is 4 times higher than the rate in
urban locations. Source 2007 FARS Data
49 of Kansas passenger vehicle occupant
fatalities are in passenger cars. Source 2007
FARS Data
In Kansas, a much larger percentage of pickup
truck fatalities are unrestrained compared to
passenger car fatalities. Source 2007 FARS Data
69 of nighttime fatalities are unrestrained in
Kansas compared to 48 of daytime
fatalities. Source 2007 FARS Data