An index for rating the total secondary safety of vehicles from real world crash data

Annual Proceedings - Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 263-280

  Newstead, S ^a   Watson, L ^a   Cameron, M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICINE; PASSENGER CARS; RISK PERCEPTION; ROADS AND STREETS;

CRASH DATUMS; CRASH TYPES; LIGHT PASSENGER VEHICLES; REAL WORLDS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCES; ROAD USERS; SAFETY INDICES; SERIOUS INJURIES;

VEHICLES;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEW ZEALAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMOBILES; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 52449131255     PISSN: 15400360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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