@article{ref1,
title="Accident data and the passive safety of vehicles or can you rate the passive safety of vehicles from accident data?",
journal="Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference",
year="1995",
author="Zobel, R.",
volume="23",
number="",
pages="375-388",
abstract="The purpose of this paper is to report on a study made by Volkswagen, comparing the results from different Institutes on the passive safety of vehicles. These Institutes use accident data from the police or from insurance companies. They derive a rating from these figures and publish it as a guideline for the customer, &quot;to choose safety.&quot; At least their publications seek to give this impression: (1) Title of the leaflet of the British Department of Transport: Buying a Car? Choose Safety; (2) The Australian Monash University Accident Research Centre uses the title: How does your car rate in a crash?; and (3) Folksam, a Swedish insurance company is very clear: How safe is your car? Clearly they feel that their data can answer this question. It is the purpose of the paper to summarize a number of observations which make it hard to believe that people are already in a position to evaluate the passive safety of vehicles from accident statistics alone.<p />",
language="en",
issn="2235-3151",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}