Literature review of pedestrian fatality risk as a function of car impact speed

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Rosén, Erik¹; Stigson, Helena^2,3; Sander, Ulrich¹

Literature review of pedestrian fatality risk as a function of car impact speed

Accid Anal Prev. January 2011;43(1):25-33

©2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Affiliations

¹Autoliv Research, Vårgårda, Sweden

²Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

³Folksam Research, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract and keywords

The aim of this review was to evaluate all studies of pedestrian fatality risk as a function of car impact speed. Relevant papers were primarily investigated with respect to data sampling procedures and methods for statistical analysis. It was uniformly reported that fatality risk increased monotonically with car impact speed. However, the absolute risk estimates varied considerably. Without exceptions, papers written before 2000 were based on direct analyses of data that had a large bias towards severe and fatal injuries. The consequence was to overestimate the fatality risks. We also found more recent research based on less biased data or adjusted for bias. While still showing a steep increase of risk with impact speed, these later papers provided substantially lower risk estimates than had been previously reported.

Keywords: Pedestrian; Fatality risk; Impact speed; Real-world data
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.04.003

PubMed: 21094293

WoS: 000285272400003
History

Received: 2010-02-08

Revised: 2010-04-01

Accepted: 2010-04-04

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