TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Accident Experience of Passenger Vehicles With Four-Wheel Antilock Braking Systems
JO  - Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
A1  - Lau, Edmund
A1  - Padmanaban, Jeya
SP  - 111
EP  - 125
VL  - 40
IS  - 
N2  - This study focuses on the effect of antilock braking systems (ABS) on accident and injury risk. Police-reported data from Florida, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina and the Fatal Accident Reporting System were examined. Accident rates were normalized using vehicle registration data. Examination of over 60,000 accidents showed the following in vehicles with ABS: (1) 9-11% reductions in overall accident rates, (2) 16-17% reductions in accidents on wet roads, (3) 6-9% reductions in accidents on dry roads, and (4) 7-16% reductions in injury rates under all road conditions. There was no measurable difference in fatal accident rates between ABS and non-ABS vehicles. ABS seemed especially effective at reducing multivehicle crashes.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1540-0360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -