Roof strength and injury risk in rollover crashes of passenger cars

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 584-592

  Brumbelow, Matthew L ^a   Teoh, Eric R ^a  

^a Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

FMVSS; Injury probability; Regulations; Rollover accidents; Roofs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INJURY; MORTALITY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEATBELT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70450170371     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580903168474     Document Type: Article

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