THE ACCIDENT REDUCTION EFFECTIVENESS OF ESC EQUIPPED CARS IN GREAT BRITAIN..

Author(s)
Thomas, P.
Year
Abstract

This paper uses the national accident statistics of Great Britain to evaluate the effectiveness of Electronic Stability Control Systems (ESC) to reduce crash involvement rates. The crash experience of 8951 cars is analysed and compared to a closely matching set of non-ESC cars using case-control methods. This is one of the largest ESC samples analysed to date. Overall the cars with ESC are involved in 3% fewer crashes although the effectiveness is substantially higher under conditions of adverse road friction. ESC equipped cars are involved in 15% fewer fatal crashes although this reduction represents the combined effect of ESC and passive safety improvements. For the covering abstract see E134653.

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Publication

Library number
C 41388 (In: C 40997 CD-ROM) /91 /81 / ITRD E136137
Source

In: Proceedings of the 13th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and Services, London, United Kingdom, 8-12 October 2006, 9 p.

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