Traffic Safety and the DriverExamines deaths, injuries, and property damage from traffic crashes. Evans (research scientist, General Motors Research Labs, Warren, Michigan) applies the methods of science to illuminate the characteristics of these problems--their origin and nature as well as their severity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... ( FARS ) / 19 Risk of Death From the Same Physical Impact / 20 Various Driver Fatality Rates / 28 Involvement Rates in Severe Crashes / 31 Threat to Other Road Users / 34 How Serious is the Older - Driver Problem ? / 36 Pedestrian ...
... ( FARS ) / 19 Risk of Death From the Same Physical Impact / 20 Various Driver Fatality Rates / 28 Involvement Rates in Severe Crashes / 31 Threat to Other Road Users / 34 How Serious is the Older - Driver Problem ? / 36 Pedestrian ...
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... ( FARS ) The Fatal Accident Reporting System , which we shall refer to as FARS , is a computerized data file maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , an agency of the US Department of Transportation . The file ...
... ( FARS ) The Fatal Accident Reporting System , which we shall refer to as FARS , is a computerized data file maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , an agency of the US Department of Transportation . The file ...
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... FARS . A publication giving much summary information from the file is issued annually [ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 1989 , and previous years ] . Even though data in this file are as reliable as any available , there ...
... FARS . A publication giving much summary information from the file is issued annually [ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 1989 , and previous years ] . Even though data in this file are as reliable as any available , there ...
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... FARS data is correct ; the potentially biasing effects of missing data are discussed in detail , for a number of specific cases , by Evans [ 1988b ] . Let us give the specific example of comparing unbelted car driver fatality risk for ...
... FARS data is correct ; the potentially biasing effects of missing data are discussed in detail , for a number of specific cases , by Evans [ 1988b ] . Let us give the specific example of comparing unbelted car driver fatality risk for ...
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... FARS 1981-1985 . The pattern is very stable from year to year - the plots ( with the ordinate scale to 1000 rather than 5000 ) for each of the individual FARS years look essentially the same as Fig . 2-5 , except for an increase in ...
... FARS 1981-1985 . The pattern is very stable from year to year - the plots ( with the ordinate scale to 1000 rather than 5000 ) for each of the individual FARS years look essentially the same as Fig . 2-5 , except for an increase in ...
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