The safest seat: Effect of seating position on occupant mortality

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-436

  Mayrose, James ^a,b   Priya, Aruna ^a,b  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash; Fatality; Safety; Seating Position

Indexed keywords

CRASH; FATALITY; SAFETY; SEATING POSITION; SURVIVAL RATES;

AUTOMOBILES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SEATBELT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50949116864     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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