{"id":9521,"date":"2025-03-01T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/seatbeltuse2015\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:25:10","slug":"seatbeltuse2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/dpc\/seatbeltuse2015\/","title":{"rendered":"dpc\/seatbeltuse2015 ~  Seatbelt Use 2015  &#8211; Delaware Health and Social Services &#8211; State of Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-swiftype-index=\"true\">\n\n\n\n\n\n  <br>\n\n\n  \n\n\n  <div class=\"container\" id=\"main_header\">\n\n\n    <!-- BEGIN readspeaker div -->\n\n\n    <div class=\"rs_skip rsbtn rs_preserve\" id=\"readspeaker_button1\">\n\n\n      <a accesskey=\"L\" class=\"rsbtn_play\" href=\"https:\/\/app-na.readspeaker.com\/cgi-bin\/rsent?customerid=7262&#038;lang=en_us&#038;readid=main_content&#038;url=https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/dpc\/seatbeltuse2015.html\" title=\"Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker\">\n\n\n        <span class=\"rsbtn_left rsimg rspart\"><span class=\"rsbtn_text\"><span>Listen<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n\n        <span class=\"rsbtn_right rsimg rsplay rspart\"><\/span>\n\n\n      <\/a>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <!-- END readspeaker div -->\n\n\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n    <header class=\"pull-left\">\n\n\n      <h1><!--[type=EDIT name=\"Page Title\"]--><\/h1><h1>Adult Seatbelt Use Continues <br>To Be High in Delaware<!--[END]--><\/h1><\/header>\n\n\n  <\/div><br>\n\n\n \n\n\n  <div class=\"container\">\n\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n\n\n      <div class=\"col-md-3\" id=\"leftCol\">\n\n\n        <div class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\">\n\n\n          <div class=\"panel sectionmenu_panel\">\n\n\n            <div class=\"panel-heading\">\n\n\n              <p class=\"panel-title\"><a class=\"agency_nav\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapseOne\"><strong><i class=\"fa fa-align-justify fa-fw\"><\/i> Public Health Menu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n            <div class=\"panel-collapse collapse in\" id=\"collapseOne\">\n\n\n              <div class=\"panel-body\" id=\"clf_nav\">\n\n\n                  <ul class=\"nav nav-stacked nav-pills-clf\" id=\"agency_sidebar\">\n    <li><a href=\"\/dph\/\"><h2>Home <i class=\"fa fa-home fa-fw\"><\/i><\/h2><\/a><\/li>\n    <li class=\"toplevel\"><a data-parent=\"#agency_sidebar\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#HomeMenu\"><h2>About <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right fa-fw\"><\/i><\/h2><\/a>\n      <ul class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"HomeMenu\">\n        <li><a href=\"\/dph\/about.html\">About DPH<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"\/dph\/sections.html\">Sections &#038; 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height: 120px; float: right;\"><strong><\/strong><strong>More than 9 of every 10 Delaware adults report that they always use their seatbelts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>According to the 2018 Delaware Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (BRFS), <strong>90.5 percent of adult Delaware residents report that they &#8220;always wear seatbelts&#8221;<\/strong> when driving or riding in a motor vehicle.\u00a0 A higher percentage of women report always using their seatbelts:\u00a0 93.9 percent of women vs. 86.7 percent of men.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The trend in Delaware has been level for the past seven years, at about 92 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>There are no statistically significant differences by race\/ethnicity.\u00a0 \u00a0However, by education, the lowest prevalence of seatbelt use (88.6 percent) is among adults with a high school education, compared to 93.6 percent of college graduates who report always using seatbelts.\u00a0 Younger adults wear seatbelts less often than older adults: 85.8 percent of 18-24 report always wearing a seatbelt compared to 93.6 percent of adults age 65 and older. This difference is statistically significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>An additional 4.4 percent of adults claim they &#8220;nearly always&#8221; use their seatbelts.\u00a0 That means 94.9 percent of Delaware adults report using their seatbelts &#8220;always\u00a0or nearly always.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Delaware&#8217;s prevalence of 90.5 percent of Delaware adults from the BRFS compares well with data from the annual observational study conducted by the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security, Office of Highway Safety.\u00a0 According to Highway Safety&#8217;s 2018 observational study, <strong>92 percent<\/strong> of motorists driving in Delaware were using their safety belts.\u00a0Delaware&#8217;s seatbelt use rate has continued to exceed the national use rate, according to Highway Safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>Student Seatbelt Use<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Self-reported seatbelt use is not as high among high school students.\u00a0 The Delaware Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) asks a random sample of public high school students if they wear a seatbelt when riding in a car driven by someone else.\u00a0 <strong>Only 63.1 percent responded &#8220;always,&#8221; <\/strong>with another 23.8 percent responded &#8220;most of the time&#8221;<strong> \u2014 <\/strong>for a total of only <strong>86.9 percent<\/strong> of high school students who claim to wear seatbelts &#8220;always or most of the time.&#8221;\u00a0A slightly higher percentage of female students reported &#8220;always&#8221; using seatbelts (65.7 percent) than did male students (61 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>More Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n\n\n\n\n <li>Information is available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohs.delaware.gov\/seatbelts.shtml\"><strong>Office of Highway Safety<\/strong><\/a> about Delaware&#8217;s seatbelt law and accident statistics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px;\"><strong><a href=\"brfsurveys.html\">Return to the Main BRFS Page<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>  <!--[END]-->\n\n\n  \n\n\n      <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><!-- \/container -->\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen Adult Seatbelt Use Continues To Be High in Delaware Public Health Menu Home About About DPH Sections &#038; Programs Office Locations Contact Info Calendar Services A-Z Services Air &#038; Water Quality Birth, Death, &#038; Marriage Records Clinics Health Data &#038; Statistics Emergency Preparedness Health &#038; Wellness Healthy Homes Healthy Workplaces Laboratory Restaurant Inspections Screening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":9401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9521\/revisions\/10760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}