%0 Journal Article
%T Vehicle mass as a determinant of fuel consumption and secondary safety performance: A comment
%J Transportation research part D: transport and environment
%D 2010
%A Hutchinson, Timothy Paul
%A Anderson, Robert W. G.
%V 15
%N 2
%P 123-125
%X Attention is called to evidence that in collisions between vehicles of equal mass, and in single-vehicle collisions, there is unlikely to be a very strong effect of car size on injury severity, and that variation in crashworthiness within the set of car models of a given size has a much larger effect. Consequently, the secondary safety of a national fleet of small cars in the future could be as high as that of a national fleet of large cars today.<p />
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 1361-9209
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2009.10.006