PASSENGER CAR DRIVERS: ANNUAL INJURY INCIDENCE AND COSTS PROJECTED TO 2005

Crashes involving passenger car drivers in head-on collisions were examined for changes in injury patterns due to increasing seat belt and air bag availability. Annual injury costs and incidenece levels (by body region and severity) were estimated for years 1990 through 2005. Over that period, severe injuries and fatalities are anticipated to decrease by 10% and 35%, respectively, despite a predicted 54% rise in the number of head-on crashes. Upper and lower extremity injuries, however, are expected to increase in terms of cost and incidence, while brain and trunk injuries diminish. Moreover, lower extremity injuries are projected to move ahead of trunk and brain injuries to become the most costly injuries by 2001.

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  ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE (AAAM)

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• Authors:
  • MARTIN, P G
  • Crandall, J R
  • Pilkey, W D
  • Miller, T R
• Conference:
  • 41st Annual Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Conference
  • Location: Orlando, Florida
  • Date: 1997-11-10 to 1997-11-11
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 249-263
• Serial:
  • Publication of: ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
  • Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
  • ISSN: 0892-6484

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brain; Costs; Crash injuries; Crash injury research; Crash victims; Drivers; Fatalities; Frontal crashes; Injury severity; Injury types; Lower extremities; Passenger cars; Traffic crashes; Upper extremities
• Uncontrolled Terms: Trunks (Human body)
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00767354
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 10 1999 12:00AM