The effectiveness of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) in reducing real life crashes and injuries

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-43

  Lie, Anders ^a   Tingvall, Claes ^a,b   Krafft, Maria ^c   Kullgren, Anders ^c  

^a SWEDISH TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Stockholm and Folksam Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accident Analysis; Active Safety; Crash Avoidance; Electronic Stability Control (ESC); Loss of Control; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ICE; SNOW;

ARTICLE; CAR; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL; FATALITY; FRICTION; INJURY; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRONICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWEDEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 32844469051     PISSN: 10286586     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580500346838     Document Type: Article

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