Vehicle related factors that influence injury outcome in head-on collisions

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 52nd Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn 52, Issue , 2008, Pages 131-140

  Blum, Jeremy J ^a   Scullion, Paul ^b   Morgan, Richard M ^b   Digges, Kennedy ^b   Kan, Cing Dao ^b   Park, Shinhee ^c   Bae, Hanil ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hyundai Motor Co   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TREES; CRASH DATUM; DATA-MINING; FATAL INJURIES; FRONTAL CRASHES; FRONTAL GEOMETRIES; HEAD-ON COLLISIONS; HEAVIER VEHICLES; INJURY RISKS; NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATIONS; OCCUPANT PROTECTIONS; PASSENGER VEHICLES; PHYSICAL FEATURES; REAL-WORLD; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; VEHICLE WEIGHTS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BIOMECHANICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CRASHWORTHINESS; MEDICINE; RISK ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

VEHICLES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAR; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INJURY; MORTALITY; PLIABILITY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; PLIABILITY; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 58849127439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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