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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... 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 Involvements in Fatal and Severe Crashes / 39 ...
... 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 Involvements in Fatal and Severe Crashes / 39 ...
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... impact , and that this factor also should be normalized . It should be apparent that this process must end with the rates being identical , and the vacuous conclusion that when you correct for everything that is different , there cannot ...
... impact , and that this factor also should be normalized . It should be apparent that this process must end with the rates being identical , and the vacuous conclusion that when you correct for everything that is different , there cannot ...
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... impacts of injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes . SAE paper 885162. Warrendale , PA : Society of Automotive Engineers ; 1988. ( Also included in XXII FISITA Congress Technical Papers , volume II , SAE Publication P - 211 , p ...
... impacts of injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes . SAE paper 885162. Warrendale , PA : Society of Automotive Engineers ; 1988. ( Also included in XXII FISITA Congress Technical Papers , volume II , SAE Publication P - 211 , p ...
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... impacts depend on sex and age ? " Although the question relates more to basic human physiology than to traffic , it has ... impact , the most effective indicator of crash severity . The file is largely limited to information which can be ...
... impacts depend on sex and age ? " Although the question relates more to basic human physiology than to traffic , it has ... impact , the most effective indicator of crash severity . The file is largely limited to information which can be ...
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... IMPACT Given that a male and 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 ...
... IMPACT Given that a male and 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 ...
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