Deformations and intrusions of the passenger compartment as indicators of injury severity and triage in head-on collisions of non-airbag-carrying vehicles

Injury

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 487-492

  Stefanopoulos, N ^a,b   Vagianos, C ^a   Stavropoulos, M ^a   Panagiotopoulos, E ^a   Androulakis, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Technol and Educational Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; AUTOMOBILES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE;

EID: 0037707954     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00345-5     Document Type: Article

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