{"id":144,"date":"2011-02-14T21:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-02-14T21:49:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:49:01","slug":"news-from-brazil-car-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/02\/14\/news-from-brazil-car-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Brazil &#8211; car safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Car advertisements in Brazil must carry safety messages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s National Traffic Department has announced the going into force of last year\u2019s amendment to the Brazilian Traffic Code, which mandates that all auto industry advertisements carry safety messages. According to the new regulation, every radio, television, newspaper, magazine, or billboard advertisement related to cars must carry short educational sentences suggested by the government, such as \u201ccomply with traffic signals\u201d, \u201cperform car maintenance checks regularly\u201d, \u201cseat belts can save lives\u201d, \u201cin traffic we are all pedestrians\u201d, \u201ctransport children safely in safety seats\u201d.Source: National Traffic Council issues norms for traffic safety messages [portuguese].\u00a0 http:\/\/www.denatran.gov.br\/ultimas\/20100618_veiculacao_educacao.htm. Accessed: Aug 7, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Car bumper lights denounce unrestrained passengers <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Brazilian local newspaper reported that some people in Brazil&#8217;s National Traffic Department are trying to pass a new rule mandating that all new cars be equipped with five lights\u00a0 on rear and front bumpers that would indicate how many passengers had their seat belts fastened, which would supposedly facilitate monitoring the use of that safety device by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this proposal was fostered by statistics that show that nearly 30% of passengers rarely or never wear seat belt in front seats and the number for back seat occupants.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ed.Note<\/span><\/em><em>: <\/em><em>Most experts consider the idea pointless, says Danilo Blank but I disagree; <\/em><em>I think the idea may prove to be a good one.<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting, off-beat items submitted by Danilo Blank from Brazil that did not make the cut for News and Nots [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/02\/14\/news-from-brazil-car-safety\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>News from Brazil - car safety - Injury Prevention: Editor&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/02\/14\/news-from-brazil-car-safety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News from Brazil - car safety - Injury Prevention: Editor&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two interesting, off-beat items submitted by Danilo Blank from Brazil that did not make the cut for News and Nots [...]Read More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/02\/14\/news-from-brazil-car-safety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Injury Prevention: Editor&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-02-14T20:49:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/injury-prevention\\\/2011\\\/02\\\/14\\\/news-from-brazil-car-safety\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/injury-prevention\\\/2011\\\/02\\\/14\\\/news-from-brazil-car-safety\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"News from Brazil &#8211; 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