What exacerbates injury and harm in car-SUV collisions?

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-104

  Khattak, Asad J ^a   Fan, Yingling ^b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisions; Injuries; Traffic accidents; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILES; CRASHWORTHINESS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MANEUVERABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS;

INJURIES; SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE;

AUTOMOBILE; COLLISION; INJURY; ROAD; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

EID: 38349085874     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2008)134:2(93)     Document Type: Article

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