Restrained front seat car occupant fatalities. The nature and circumstances of their injuries.

The circumstances of a rural and urban sample of fatalities in vehicles less than 6 years old is described. The data comprise part of the fatal subset of an in- depth study being conducted in England since 1983. Of the crash related deaths with complete data, some 43% were frontal and lateral impacts and they are analysed in greater detail. 36% of restrained occupants died in lateral collisions.