Serious or fatal driver injury rate versus car mass in head-on crashes between cars of similar mass.

Author(s)
Evans, L. & Wasielewski, P.
Year
Abstract

The present study finds that the likelihood of driver injury (fatal or serious) when cars of similar mass crash into each other increases with decreasing car mass, both for head-on crashes and for crashes in all directions. The study does not address possible mechanisms that might lead to such relations. all the data analyzed reveal a fairly consistent picture - a driver in a 900 kg car head-on into another 900 kg car is about 2.0 times as likely to be seriously injured or killed as is a driver of a 1800 kg crashing head-on into another 1800 kg car.

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Publication

Library number
B 23763 (In: B 23751 [electronic version only]) /84/91/ IRRD 281826
Source

In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine, Denver, Colorado, October 8-10, 1984, p. 123-138, fig., graph., tab., ref.

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