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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... are expected to produce a similar percent reduction in fatalities in a nation of one million as in a larger nation providing 1 sufficient data to estimate the percent reduction . Damask [ INTRODUCTION / The Importance of Traffic Safety /
... are expected to produce a similar percent reduction in fatalities in a nation of one million as in a larger nation providing 1 sufficient data to estimate the percent reduction . Damask [ INTRODUCTION / The Importance of Traffic Safety /
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... similar to the cost for fatalities . Table 1-5 shows an estimate of the distribution of the 74.2 billion dollar cost of traffic crashes in the US in 1986. The second largest cost , insurance expenses , includes only costs spent to ...
... similar to the cost for fatalities . Table 1-5 shows an estimate of the distribution of the 74.2 billion dollar cost of traffic crashes in the US in 1986. The second largest cost , insurance expenses , includes only costs spent to ...
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... 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 cases are ...
... 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 cases are ...
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... similar age . Consequently , the control occupant will be disaggregated into as many categories as the data allow . It is further assumed that the information coded in the FARS data is correct ; the potentially biasing effects of ...
... similar age . Consequently , the control occupant will be disaggregated into as many categories as the data allow . It is further assumed that the information coded in the FARS data is correct ; the potentially biasing effects of ...
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... similar physical insults for females relative to males of the same age versus age for eight subject occupant categories . Based on Evans [ 1988c ] . older ages arise because of fewer fatalities to older drivers EFFECTS OF SEX AND AGE 23.
... similar physical insults for females relative to males of the same age versus age for eight subject occupant categories . Based on Evans [ 1988c ] . older ages arise because of fewer fatalities to older drivers EFFECTS OF SEX AND AGE 23.
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