TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - The Effects of Car Weight and Power-to-Weight Ratio on Crash Severity
JO  - Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
A1  - Fontaine, Helene
SP  - 359
EP  - 372
VL  - 38
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N2  - The role played by car weight in occupant protection, and in aggressiveness towards other road users is well known. But it is also important to account for the influence of vehicle performance and its combination with criteria linked to the drivers, or to the type of collision. This paper aims at quantifying the effects of these explanatory variables on crash severity, in order to establish a hierarchy among these risk factors of fatality. The statistical analysis is made using logistic regression methods to model the risk of a driver being killed when involved in a crash. Initially, the analysis concerns all crashes, then two crash types are considered: head-on collisions and single-car crashes.<p />
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SN  - 1540-0360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -