Use and misuse of motor-vehicle crash death rates in assessing highway-safety performance

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 307-318

  O'Neill, Brian ^a   Kyrychenko, Sergey Y ^a  

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

Author keywords

Death Rates by Jurisdiction; Motor Vehicle Crashes; Regression Analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; HELMET; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; MOTORCYCLE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDESTRIAN; POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; VARIANCE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751196582     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580600832661     Document Type: Article

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