Car design and risk of pedestrian deaths.
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 80 (5) , 609-610
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.80.5.609
Abstract
Fatal pedestrian injury rates by cars with relatively sharp front-corner designs were compared to such rates by cars of similar-size with relatively smooth front-corner designs. The relative risk of death by front-corner impact was 26 percent greater among the sharp-cornered cars. Pedestrian death rates from impact with other points on the cars and insurance claim frequencies among the studied cars were similar between the two sets of cars.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: