TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Differences between older and younger drivers: characteristics of fatal car crashes and driver injuries
JO  - Proceedings: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Annual Conference
A1  - Oestroem, M
A1  - Eriksson, Antonina
A1  - Bjoernstig, U
A1  - Sjoegren, H
SP  - 237
EP  - 253
VL  - 37
IS  - 
N2  - Car drivers (>= 18 years; n = 514) in Northern Sweden who were fatally injured over a 13-year-period were investigated using autopsy and police reports. Fatalities per unit distance and per licenced driver were highest for the >= 70-year-old and < 25-year-old drivers; these two age groups had similar fatality frequencies. The "older" (>= 60-year-old) drivers were more often at fault than the "younger" (< 60-year-old) ones. Fatal head injuries decreased whilst chest injuries increased with age. The older drivers were more likely to die as a consequence of less severe injuries than the younger ones. The belted younger drivers had fewer fatal chest injuries and more head injuries than the non-belted ones. In older drivers, fatal head injuries were more common in side impacts than in frontal impacts. Older drivers got more post-traumatic complications than the younger ones.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 1540-0344
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -