Organisation: Department for Transport
Date uploaded: 29th September 2010
Date published/launched: April 2009
The relationship between speed and injury severity was explored for seat-belted car drivers in impacts with other cars.
The results were compared to a recent paper by Wramborg (2005), which also presented the relationship between speed and injury severity.
Information on fatally and seriously injured drivers from the Co-operative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) and slightly injured drivers from the On the Spot (OTS) study were combined.
The number of fatal, serious and slightly injured drivers in this dataset were weighted using the police STATS19 database, and the risk of injury with respect to the change of velocity of the driver’s car was calculated.
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David Richards