@article{ref1,
title="First car-to-car crashes involving young adult drivers: main patterns and their relation to car and driver characteristics",
journal="International journal of injury control and safety promotion",
year="2006",
author="Laflamme, Lucie and Hasselberg, Marie and Kullgren, Anders and Vaez, Marjan",
volume="13",
number="3",
pages="179-186",
abstract="The primary objective of the study was to examine the relationship between patterns in car-to-car crashes involving young drivers and car and driver characteristics and the research design was a national register-based prospective cohort study. Individual records in a cohort born 1970-1972 are linked to road-traffic-crash data (1988-2000). Subjects' first police-registered two-car crash leading to severe or fatal injury (n = 4875) are identified. Typical crash patterns are highlighted and associations between pattern and both car and individual socio-demographic characteristics are tested. Four crash patterns are highlighted. Male drivers and those with lower educational attainment are over-represented in all patterns. Pattern-based risk levels vary considerably according to car safety level and driver's age at time of injury and socio-economic status. Crash patterns might be considered in young adult driver education systems, bearing in mind the consistent higher risks of male drivers and of drivers with lower educational attainment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1745-7300",
doi="10.1080/17457300600579672",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300600579672"
}