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Car design and risk of pedestrian deaths.

Author(s) -

Leon S. Robertson

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.80.5.609

Subject(s) - pedestrian , front (military) , poison control , injury prevention , demography , occupational safety and health , medicine , environmental health , forensic engineering , geography , transport engineering , engineering , sociology , meteorology , pathology

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.

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