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Table 7 Probabilities of suffering a serious accident, depending on the use of seat belt and the most influential variables in driver injury severity. Processed by the Authors

From: Influence of seat-belt use on the severity of injury in traffic accidents

Variables

Use of Seat-Belt (KSI Risk)

Comments

Road-Type

Distraction

Yes

No

Unknown

High speed road

No

1.24%

8.73%

2.40%

Motorways, dual carriageway, others high speed roads + no distraction

Yes

7.08%

48.52%

4.39%

Motorways, dual carriageway, others high speed roads + distraction like use: mobile phone, gps, hands-free, radio, dvd, smoke, others

Unknown

1.99%

19.62%

2.18%

Motorways, dual carriageway, others high speed roads + unknown distraction

Medium speed road

No

3.53%

23.48%

2.64%

Conventional roads of 1 and 2 lanes + no distraction

Yes

8.39%

38.56%

9.32%

Conventional roads of 1 and 2 lanes + distraction like use: mobile phone, gps, hands-free, radio, dvd, smoke, others

Unknown

5.37%

42.85%

3.62%

Conventional roads of 1 and 2 lanes + unknown distraction

Low speed road

No

0.66%

3.57%

0.39%

Service ways, streets, neighbor roads, private roads + no distraction

Yes

2.24%

25.13%

2.15%

Service ways, streets, neighbor roads, private roads + distraction like use: mobile phone, gps, hands-free, radio, dvd, smoke, others

Unknown

0.48%

5.24%

0.35%

Service ways, streets, neighbor roads, private roads + unknown distraction

Others

No

2.64%

0.00%

0,00%

Bike roads or similar + no distraction

Yes

6.49%

42.86%

0.99%

Bike roads or similar + distraction like use: mobile phone, gps, hands-free, radio, dvd, smoke, others

Unknown

1.89%

21.97%

1.56%

Bike roads or similar + unknown distraction