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Improving transport safety has not been easy. Considerable effort was needed to overcome prejudice and entrenched views before the existing achievements could be made. Thus despite the evidence of marked reductions in facilities and serious injuries in car crashes, it took eleven attempts to get seat belt laws through the British Parliament [1]. Many more years were to pass before the legislation was extended to the rear seats of cars, and bus and coach passengers are largely unprotected by seat belts. Many spurious arguments have been used with great facility by the antagonists, ranging from infringements of civil liberties to erroneous claims of dangers, to counter evidence of the benefits achievable by safety measures. These arguments must be remembered and considered in the context of their first use, for derivatives will be deployed in the future.
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Hill, I.R. (1997). Forensic Analysis and Data for Road Users. In: Ambrósio, J.A.C., Pereira, M.F.O.S., da Silva, F.P. (eds) Crashworthiness of Transportation Systems: Structural Impact and Occupant Protection. NATO ASI Series, vol 332. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5796-4_4
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