Publication Details

An analysis of automobile accidents to determine which variables are most strongly associated with driver injury: Relationships between driver injury and vehicle model year

Type: Paper

Author(s): Stewart, J. Richard

Publisher: HSRC

Publication Date: Dec-1975

Address: Chapel Hill, NC

Abstract: The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, under a contract with the US General Accounting Office, has conducted an analysis of North Carolina motor vehicle accident data designed to accomplish the following goals: 1) To determine which of a collection of variables characteizing the crash configuraion, automobile characteristics, and driver characteristics are most strongly associated with driver injury, and 2) To obtain estimates of differences in injury rates associated with certain vehicle model year categories from categorical data models developed using the variables selected in 1).