Drivers who choose not to wear their seatbelts are more likely to get into an accident.
According to May 2023 research by the data science team at Verizon Connect in an investigation of more than 7 million videos from Verizon Connect dashcam footage, commercial drivers operate vehicles without a seat belt fastened in one out of every 10 instances. The study also revealed that 40% of all videos showed a vehicle exceeding the posted speed limit. For more than two decades, speeding has contributed to approximately one-third of all motor vehicle fatalities, and 64% of truck drivers killed in automobile accidents were not wearing seatbelts.
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“Generally, the driver’s actions that are captured most often are common occurrences like following the vehicle in front of you too closely and speeding. Drivers being unbelted is another action that we see quite often, especially as the detection systems surrounding unbelted drivers get more and more sophisticated,” said Kyle Warlick, a senior analyst in client intelligence at Lytx, a video telematics and fleet management solutions provider. “While driving unbelted has less of a direct relationship to collisions, as opposed to speeding and following too closely, we have seen that people who get into collisions often have been driving unbelted in the past. This is likely because drivers who are not engaging in safe driving by putting on their seatbelts are more likely to ignore other safety regulations.”
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