The Relationship Between Car Size and Occupant Injury in Traffic Accidents in Japan
- 24 February 1997
- proceedings article
- Published by SAE International in SAE International Journal of Advances and Current Practices in Mobility
Abstract
The relationship between car size and occupant injury is examined using traffic accident data from all over Japan. For head-on collisions, the occupant injury rate is formulated based on the approximation of occupant injury by delta-V. The effects on occupant injury of the sizes of the striking andKeywords
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