TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Accident data and the passive safety of vehicles or can you rate the passive safety of vehicles from accident data?
JO  - Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference
A1  - Zobel, R.
SP  - 375
EP  - 388
VL  - 23
IS  - 
N2  - 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, "to choose safety." 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 /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 2235-3151
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -