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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... females are killed in traffic crashes in the US , the answer is simply the count of the number of deaths ; the ... female rates . This provides a measure of the rate per unit distance of driving , but not per unit of driving under ...
... females are killed in traffic crashes in the US , the answer is simply the count of the number of deaths ; the ... female rates . This provides a measure of the rate per unit distance of driving , but not per unit of driving under ...
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... female of similar age are subjected to similar physical insults , or impacts , which one is more likely to die ? Traditional epidemiological studies are unable to answer this question because adequate samples of suffi- ciently similar ...
... female of similar age are subjected to similar physical insults , or impacts , which one is more likely to die ? Traditional epidemiological studies are unable to answer this question because adequate samples of suffi- ciently similar ...
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... female driver and a male passenger , at least one of whom is killed . From the numbers of female driver and male ... females aged 33-37 to that for males in the same age range ( call them 35- year - old drivers ) . For the control ...
... female driver and a male passenger , at least one of whom is killed . From the numbers of female driver and male ... females aged 33-37 to that for males in the same age range ( call them 35- year - old drivers ) . For the control ...
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... female driver to 20 - year - old male passenger fatality ratio r1 = 43/23 = 1.870 Eqn 2-1 That is , for this case , 1.870 female drivers were killed per male passenger killed . The corresponding information from the set of crashes used ...
... female driver to 20 - year - old male passenger fatality ratio r1 = 43/23 = 1.870 Eqn 2-1 That is , for this case , 1.870 female drivers were killed per male passenger killed . The corresponding information from the set of crashes used ...
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Leonard Evans. Car driver 0.7 Female to male fatality risk ratio Car right- front passenger Car left- rear passenger 1 ... females relative to males of the same age versus age for eight subject occupant categories . Based on Evans [ 1988c ] ...
Leonard Evans. Car driver 0.7 Female to male fatality risk ratio Car right- front passenger Car left- rear passenger 1 ... females relative to males of the same age versus age for eight subject occupant categories . Based on Evans [ 1988c ] ...
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