It was mentioned earlier how the death rate is higher for thrown out of vehicle passengers in the rear seating positions. The section categorizes thrown out of vehicle passenger fatalities involved in accidents according to "seating position" and "age" (see Fig. 13).
Important to note that children of 18 years of age or less comprise a large thirty-four percent ratio of the fatalities from passengers thrown out of rear seating positions of vehicles.
Table 1 shows statistics for "passenger seating position", "ratio of passengers wearing seat belts*1" and "extent of injury" for the "all accidents involving vehicles" and the "thrown out of vehicle accidents" categories. As the table shows, in the category of "accidents involving vehicles," the seat belt wearing rate for fatalities from the driver's seat and front passenger seat was 38 to 40 percent.
In the case of "thrown out of vehicle accident fatalities," the seat belt wearing ratio for fatalities thrown from the driver's seat and the front passenger seat were 4 percent and 7 percent, respectively. This clearly indicates how most fatalities were not wearing seat belts.
In the case of rear seat fatalities for "thrown out of vehicle accidents," only one percent were wearing seat belts.
From this information, it is easy to visualize the fact that there is a very high likelihood of children not wearing seatbelts in the rear seat area getting thrown out of the vehicle and suffering serious injuries in the event of traffic accidents.
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