Injury probability and risk in frontal crashes: Effects of sorting techniques on priorities for offset testing

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 583-595

  Buzeman, Dagmar G ^a   Viano, David C ^a,b   Lövsund, Per ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash severity; Epidemiology; Frontal offset crash; Injury risk; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; RISK; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK; SWEDEN; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMPACT TESTING; PROBABILITY; RISKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPARTMENT INTRUSION; CRASH SEVERITY; EQUIVALENT BARRIER SPEED; FRONTAL OFFSET CRASH; INJURY; OFFSET TEST; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032148362     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(98)00018-9     Document Type: Article

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