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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... killed on US roads ; more than half a million from 1969. Traffic deaths from 1977 through 1988 exceeded all US battle deaths in all wars from the revolutionary war through the Vietnam war . Injuries outnumber deaths by about a factor of ...
... killed on US roads ; more than half a million from 1969. Traffic deaths from 1977 through 1988 exceeded all US battle deaths in all wars from the revolutionary war through the Vietnam war . Injuries outnumber deaths by about a factor of ...
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... killed each year in traffic crashes [ Hutchinson 1987 ] , and approximately one person in 200 in the world's population dies from injuries received in traffic crashes [ Trinca et al . 1988 ] . These losses are spread among the nations ...
... killed each year in traffic crashes [ Hutchinson 1987 ] , and approximately one person in 200 in the world's population dies from injuries received in traffic crashes [ Trinca et al . 1988 ] . These losses are spread among the nations ...
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... killed by crocodile bites than by dog bites , one cannot conclude that it is safer to have a pet crocodile around ... killed in traffic crashes in the US , the answer is simply the count of the number of deaths ; the answer is ...
... killed by crocodile bites than by dog bites , one cannot conclude that it is safer to have a pet crocodile around ... killed in traffic crashes in the US , the answer is simply the count of the number of deaths ; the answer is ...
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... killed for each 65 - year - old driver killed . A focus on the variables of sex and age is therefore to be expected . Another reason for emphasizing these variables is that they tend to be the only demographic variables available , as ...
... killed for each 65 - year - old driver killed . A focus on the variables of sex and age is therefore to be expected . Another reason for emphasizing these variables is that they tend to be the only demographic variables available , as ...
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... killed compared to the corresponding proba- bility that a male driver is killed , averaged over the distribution of crashes that occur in actual traffic ; thus we obtain the risk to the female driver compared to the risk to the male ...
... killed compared to the corresponding proba- bility that a male driver is killed , averaged over the distribution of crashes that occur in actual traffic ; thus we obtain the risk to the female driver compared to the risk to the male ...
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