Crash characteristics and injury outcomes for older passenger car occupants

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 322-334

  Welsh, Ruth ^a   Morris, Andrew ^a   Hassan, Ahamedali ^b   Charlton, Judith ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accident study; Injury risk; Older car occupants

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; PASSENGER CARS; SAFETY FACTOR;

ACCIDENT STUDY; ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD); INJURY RISK; OLDER CAR OCCUPANTS;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 33748786794     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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