Investigation of the Safety Effects of Knee Bolster Air Bag Deployment in Similar Real-World Crash Comparisons

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-180

  Weaver, Ashley A ^a   Loftis, Kathryn L ^a   Stitzel, Joel D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

comparison; fracture; knee bolster; knee thigh hip; motor vehicle crash; similarity

Indexed keywords

AIRBAG; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HIP INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE INJURY; PELVIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; STATISTICS; THIGH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HIP INJURIES; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; PELVIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; THIGH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84872400402     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.697643     Document Type: Article

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