Air bag effectiveness as function of impact speed

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 128-135

  Nusholtz, G S ^a,b   Famili, F ^a   Domenico, L Di ^a   Shi, Y ^a   Aoun, Z Ben ^a   Hongsakaphadana, Y ^a  

^a CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

^b CIMS 483 05 10 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Air Bag; Vehicle Crash; Vehicle Safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; INJURY SCALE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEATBELT; TECHNOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VELOCITY;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038782852     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580309871     Document Type: Article

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