Policy makers, vehicle manufacturers, and consumers have shown growing concern about
the relative safety of sport utility vehicles (SUVs), vans, pickups, and cars. Empirical analysis …

Traffic crash risk assessments should incorporate appropriate exposure data. However,
existing US nationwide crash data sets, the NASS General Estimates System (GES) and the …

This research sets out to estimate the effects of vehicle incompatibility on the risk of death or
major injury to drivers involved in two-vehicle collisions. Based on data for 2,999,395 …

In 1970 sport utility vehicles (SUVs) accounted for only about 1 percent of new vehicle sales.
By 1980 they had increased to 6 percent, and by 2003 to 27 percent. This rapid growth has …

Introduction This study sets out to investigate the interactive effect on injury severity of driver-
vehicle units in two-vehicle crashes. Method A Bayesian hierarchical ordered logit model is …

With increasing speed limits and more light trucks penetrating the market, concern over their
rollover risk is growing. In particular, the general public and automobile manufacturers …

This research explores differences in injury severity between male and female drivers in
single and two-vehicle accidents involving passenger cars, pickups, sport-utility vehicles …

Background This study examines whether mortality is greater in sport utility vehicles (SUVs)
or passenger cars when these vehicles collide in a head-on crash. Methods This study …

Objective: When 2 vehicles of different sizes collide, the occupants of the smaller vehicle are
more likely to be injured than the occupants of the larger vehicle. The larger vehicle is both …

We study the dependence of risk on vehicle type and especially on vehicle model. Here, risk
is measured by the number of driver fatalities per year per million vehicles registered. We …