SMALL-CAR ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT

THE ENTIRE WASHTENAW COUNTY (MICHIGAN) FILE WAS INTERROGATED IN AN EFFORT TO EXAMINE HOW SMALL AND LARGE CARS DIFFER IN THE TYPES OF CRASHES THEY BECOME INVOLVED IN. THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN DRIVER CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS WERE ALSO INVESTIGATED. MEANS, MARGINAL DISTRIBUTIONS, AND BIVARIATE FREQUENCIES WERE DETERMINED USING A PACKAGE OF STATISTICAL PROGRAMS KNOWN AS THE STATISTICAL RESEARCH SYSTEM. SUBSET POPULATIONS OF LARGE VEHICLES AND SMALL VEHICLES WERE SELECTED FROM THE FILE ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIZATIONS: "LARGE" CARS INCLUDED ALL BUICKS, CHEVROLETS, FORDS, AND PLYMOUTHS; "SMALL" CARS WERE REPRESENTED BY VOLKSWAGENS, MG'S, OPELS, FIATS, RENAULTS, AND BMW'S. IT WAS APPARENT THAT THERE IS LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO VEHICLE SAMPLES IN ANY OF THE CATEGORIES. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 11-12, 1 FIG
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  /Hit Lab Reports
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Brown, B Scott
• Publication Date: 1970-11

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compact automobiles; Crashes; Foreign automobiles; Large automobiles; Statistical analysis; Traffic crashes
• Old TRIS Terms: Foreign vehicles; Large car; Small car
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221209
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 7 1971 12:00AM