Real-life fatal outcome in car-to-car near-side impacts-implications for improved protection considering age and crash severity

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 194-203

  Sunnevang, Cecilia ^a   Rośen, Erik ^a   Bostrom, Ola ^a  

^a AUTOLIV RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exposure; Incidence; Near side impact; Restraint effectiveness; Risk; Senior occupants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; AUTOMOBILES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEDEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67650745399     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580802594127     Document Type: Article

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