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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... male and female rates . This provides a measure of the rate per unit distance of driving , but not per unit of driving under identical driving conditions . As it is likely that males do more driving under more risky conditions ( while ...
... male and female rates . This provides a measure of the rate per unit distance of driving , but not per unit of driving under identical driving conditions . As it is likely that males do more driving under more risky conditions ( while ...
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... male fatalities outnumber female fatalities by well over a factor of two ; eight 20 - year - old male drivers are killed for each 65 - year - old driver killed . A focus on the variables of sex and age is therefore to be expected ...
... male fatalities outnumber female fatalities by well over a factor of two ; eight 20 - year - old male drivers are killed for each 65 - year - old driver killed . A focus on the variables of sex and age is therefore to be expected ...
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... 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 samples of suffi- ciently ...
... 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 samples of suffi- ciently ...
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... male passenger , at least one of whom is killed . From the numbers of female driver and male passenger fatalities , a female driver to male passenger fatality ratio is calculated . From a second set of crashes involving cars containing ...
... male passenger , at least one of whom is killed . From the numbers of female driver and male passenger fatalities , a female driver to male passenger fatality ratio is calculated . From a second set of crashes involving cars containing ...
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... male passenger killed . The corresponding information from the set of crashes used for the second comparison , in which the driver is male rather than female , gives a 35 - year - old male driver to 20 - year - old male passenger ratio ...
... male passenger killed . The corresponding information from the set of crashes used for the second comparison , in which the driver is male rather than female , gives a 35 - year - old male driver to 20 - year - old male passenger ratio ...
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