Helmet effectiveness in preventing motorcycle driver and passenger fatalities.

Author(s)
Evans L. & Frick, M.C.
Year
Abstract

Helmet effectiveness in preventing fatalities to motor-cycle drivers and passengers was determined by applying the double pair comparison method to the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) data for 1975 through 1984. Motor-cycle helmet effectiveness estimates are found to be relatively unaffected by performing the analyses in a number of ways different from that indicated above. It was found that helmets are (27 ± 9) % effective in preventing fatalities to motorcycle riders (the error is one standard error) .

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Publication

Library number
B 26274 (In: B 26251) [electronic version only] /84 /91 / IRRD 809744
Source

In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 28-30, 1987, p. 353-367, 1 graph., 6 tab., 21 ref.

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