Estimation of fatality and injury risk by means of in-depth fatal accident investigation data

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 492-502

  Yannis, George ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleonora ^a   Dupont, Emmanuelle ^b   Martensen, Heike ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Behaviour and Policy Department   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fatal accidents; Fatality risk; In depth accident investigation; Injury risk; Multilevel logistic regression models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77957233048     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2010.492536     Document Type: Article

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