Vehicle crashworthiness and the older motorist
| Autor: | Richard Frampton, Andrew Morris, Judith Lynne Charlton, Brian N Fildes, Ruth Welsh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Social Psychology Side impact business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sample (statistics) Accident analysis Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Age groups Crashworthiness Medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology business human activities Demography Motor vehicle crash |
| Zdroj: | Ageing and Society. 23:395-409 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1779 0144-686X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0144686x03001223 |
| Popis: | This study examines the relationship between age and the injury outcomes for belted drivers in road vehicle crashes in the United Kingdom. The sample of 1,541 drivers was divided into three age groups: 889 drivers were aged 17–39 years (young drivers); 515 were 40–64 years (middle-aged), and 137 aged 65–84 years (older drivers). Both frontal and side impact crashes in which the vehicles sustained sufficient damage to be towed away from the scene are considered. In-depth information obtained from examinations of the crashed vehicles was combined with clinical data obtained from hospitals to throw light on the mechanisms that led to the injuries. Results show that in crashes of approximately equal severity, older drivers were significantly more likely than middle-aged and young drivers to be fatally injured in both frontal (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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