Rollover risk of cars and light trucks after accounting for driver and environmental factors

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-173

  Farmer, Charles M ^a   Lund, Adrian K ^a  

^a Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Motor vehicle crashes; Rollover; Static stability factor; Tilt table ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERIALS TESTING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036489137     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(01)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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