Seatbelts were invented by English engineer George Cayley, to use on his glider, in the mid-19th century. [6]

NHTSA Announces Final Rule Requiring Seat Belts on Motorcoaches". NHTSA. Archived from the original on 2013-12-09 . Retrieved 2013-12-03. Giles, Barney M. (October 1950). "Early Military Aviation in Texas". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. LIV (October): 145–146 . Retrieved 2019-03-28. Observational studies of car crash morbidity and mortality, [107] [108] [109] experiments using both crash test dummies and human cadavers indicate that wearing seat belts greatly reduces the risk of death and injury in the majority of car crashes.

Current UK laws on using child car seats

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a b Passenger Car Front Seat Occupant Protection (PDF) (Report). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Plans and Programs, Office of Planning and Analysis. July 11, 1984. p.IV-2 . Retrieved 2016-02-14. a b Haic, Marty (February 23, 1979). "Crusade Continues, But The Intensity Has Mellowed". Boca Raton News. p.8C . Retrieved 2009-12-03. [ permanent dead link] It’s been a legal requirement for drivers and passengers to wear seat belts since 1983, however, seat belt law itself, isn't that simple. Talk to your doctor for more information and read ‘medical exemptions from compulsory seat belt wearing’. Wearing a seat belt while pregnant The effects of seat belt laws are disputed by those who observe that their passage did not reduce road fatalities. There was also concern that instead of legislating for a general protection standard for vehicle occupants, laws that required a particular technical approach would rapidly become dated as motor manufacturers would tool up for a particular standard that could not easily be changed. For example, in 1969 there were competing designs for lap and three-point seat belts, rapidly tilting seats, and airbags being developed. As countries started to mandate seat belt restraints the global auto industry invested in the tooling and standardized exclusively on seat belts, and ignored other restraint designs such as airbags for several decades [112]a b https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs/2020/ECE-TRANS-WP.29-343-Rev.28-Add.1.pdf [ bare URL PDF] The law was also changed in ‘67, requiring all cars manufactured since ‘65 to be retro-fitted with front seat belts. Clearwater Car Accident Injuries | Whiplash Injuries". Clearwater Injury Lawyer. Archived from the original on 2016-11-04 . Retrieved 2016-11-02. Allt om Motor: Trepunktsbältet 50 år". Alltommotor.se. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17 . Retrieved 2011-02-02. Farmer CM, Wells JK (2010). "Effect of enhanced seat belt reminders on driver fatality risk". Journal of Safety Research. 41 (1): 53–57. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2009.11.001. PMID 20226951.