Seatbelt usage during pregnancy

Safe Mobility
The seatbelt is the single most important vehicle safety system, and halves the fatality risk in a passenger car collision.

The seatbelt is designed to catch and distribute the load across the body in the event of a crash. However, international studies have shown that many women use the belt incorrectly during their pregnancy. Incorrect usage increases the risk of the woman and the unborn child being injured in the event of a collision. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate seat belt use among (mainly Swedish) women who were or had been pregnant. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate whether, and to what extent, women received information about correct seatbelt usage during pregnancy.

Project partners are: Chalmers Industriteknik and Folksam

Link to the study (in Swedish):

Do you want to know more?

Anna Carlsson

Project Manager, MSc MEd

More projects
Project

Area Analysis of Biogenic Carbon Flow in Agriculture

Chalmers Industriteknik mapped biogenic carbon flows in Swedish agriculture to identify opportunities for improved resource efficiency and new uses of biomass. The analysis provide…

Project

Trusted Research Environment for Health AI (TRE4HealthAI)

TRE4HealthAI is a system demonstrator for secure health data management and AI development. It faciliates ethically sound, regulation-compliant health data innovation and research,…

Project

Health Data Innovation Platform (HDIP)

HDIP develops guidelines for secure and responsible secondary use of health data in research and innovation. The project focuses on defining legal structures and operational proces…