Investigation of 184 passenger car-pedestrian accidents

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-320

  Zhao, Hui ^a   Yin, Zhiyong ^a   Chen, Rong ^a   Chen, Huipeng ^b   Song, Cui ^c   Yang, Guangyu ^a   Wang, Zhengguo ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

accident; impact speed; pedestrian injury; vehicle pedestrian

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; IMPACT SPEED; IN-VEHICLE; INJURY SEVERITY; PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS; PEDESTRIAN CRASHES; PEDESTRIAN INJURIES; PEDESTRIAN INJURY; ROAD USERS; SAFETY STANDARD;

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILES; ROADS AND STREETS; SPEED; VEHICLES;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 77954937818     PISSN: 13588265     EISSN: 17542111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13588260903335290     Document Type: Article

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