Reduced protection for belted occupants in rear seats relative to front seats of new model year vehicles

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 54th Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 149-158

  Sahraei, Elham ^a   Digges, Kennedy ^a   Marzougui, Dhafer ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; FRONTAL CRASHES; NEW MODEL; PAIRED COMPARISON METHOD;

MEDICINE;

VEHICLES;

HUMAN; INJURY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SAFETY; SEATBELT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SAFETY; SEAT BELTS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650920126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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