Pedestrian crashes: Higher injury severity and mortality rate for light truck vehicles compared with passenger vehicles

Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 154-158

  Roudsari, B S ^a   Mock, C N ^a   Kaufman, R ^a   Grossman, D ^a   Henary, B Y ^b   Crandall, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDESTRIAN; RECORDING; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VELOCITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK INJURY; RISK FACTOR;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 4344685886     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2003.003814     Document Type: Article

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