TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - First car-to-car crashes involving young adult drivers: main patterns and their relation to car and driver characteristics
JO  - International journal of injury control and safety promotion
A1  - Laflamme, Lucie
A1  - Hasselberg, Marie
A1  - Kullgren, Anders
A1  - Vaez, Marjan
SP  - 179
EP  - 186
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1745-7300
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300600579672
ID  - ref1
ER  -