PAPERS ON CAR SIZE: SAFETY AND TRENDS
The five papers in the volume describe analyses of car size safety (differences in the number and severity of injuries and in the number of fatalities) and car size trends (changes in the relative numbers of small and large cars and their use). All five were written between December 1988 and May 1989. Four of these papers (describing seat belt effectiveness by car weight class, occupant fatalities by car weight class and changes over time, an investigation of the consistency of car weight reporting, and registration-based fatality rates) were written as partial preparation for the fifth. This fifth was an exploration of the relative safety of cars in single vehicle nonrollover accidents presented by the Experimental Safety Vehicle Conference.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- PARTYKA, S C
- Boehly, W A
- Publication Date: 1989-6
Media Info
- Pagination: 106 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Fatalities; Manual safety belts; Safety; Safety factors; Vehicle design; Vehicle size; Vehicle weight
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00493995
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-807 444
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM