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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... suggests 4.34 million ( rather than 3.42 million ) injuries per year , and 94 , rather than 74 , injuries per fatality . The above discussion of injuries has focused on the US , and shown the difficulties associated with injury ...
... suggests 4.34 million ( rather than 3.42 million ) injuries per year , and 94 , rather than 74 , injuries per fatality . The above discussion of injuries has focused on the US , and shown the difficulties associated with injury ...
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... suggest a general explanation of why it occurred . There are very few traffic fatalities ( the small fraction of drownings and fire - deaths not initiated by crashes ) for which the term crash is inappropriate . Collections of observed ...
... suggest a general explanation of why it occurred . There are very few traffic fatalities ( the small fraction of drownings and fire - deaths not initiated by crashes ) for which the term crash is inappropriate . Collections of observed ...
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... suggested that this difference arises because of faster driving under the same conditions , and that this should be incorporated into the measure of exposure . Suppose that when this is done , a difference in fatality rates is now ...
... suggested that this difference arises because of faster driving under the same conditions , and that this should be incorporated into the measure of exposure . Suppose that when this is done , a difference in fatality rates is now ...
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... suggest that the driver is from a different , and more crash - involved population than the one with drivers whose average risk is 0.1 per year . After 20 years , if everything remained the same , the average number of crashes would be ...
... suggest that the driver is from a different , and more crash - involved population than the one with drivers whose average risk is 0.1 per year . After 20 years , if everything remained the same , the average number of crashes would be ...
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... suggestion . American Journal of Sociology 84 : 1150–1174 ; 1979 . Smeed , R. Some statistical aspects of road safety research . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Series A 112 : 1-34 ; 1949 . Smeed , R. Variations in the ...
... suggestion . American Journal of Sociology 84 : 1150–1174 ; 1979 . Smeed , R. Some statistical aspects of road safety research . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Series A 112 : 1-34 ; 1949 . Smeed , R. Variations in the ...
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