Pedestrian injuries from cars and SUVs: Updated crash outcomes from the vulnerable road user injury prevention alliance (VIPA)

SS Monfort, BC Mueller - Traffic injury prevention, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The current short communication was written to update research on real-world
pedestrian crashes. In particular, our analysis offers a preliminary update on SUV …

Pedestrian risk from cars and sport utility vehicles-a comparative analytical study

CK Simms, DP Wood - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Abstract Analysis of real-world crash data from the USA shows that 11.5 per cent of
pedestrians struck by large sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are killed, compared with 4.5 per …

Influence of vehicle body type on pedestrian injury distribution

D Longhitano, B Henary, K Bhalla, J Ivarsson… - SAE transactions, 2005 - JSTOR
Pedestrian impact protection has been a growing area of research over the past twenty or
more years. The results from many studies have shown the importance of providing …

[HTML][HTML] Passenger and heavy vehicle collisions with pedestrians: assessment of injury mechanisms and risk

A Schubert, S Babisch, JM Scanlon… - Accident Analysis & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective Automated Driving System (ADS) fleets are currently being deployed in
several dense-urban operational design domains within the United States. In these dense …

Vehicle front-end geometry and in-depth pedestrian injury outcomes

SS Monfort, W Hu, BC Mueller - Traffic injury prevention, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Large passenger vehicles have consistently demonstrated an outsized injury risk
to pedestrians they strike, particularly those with tall, blunt front ends. However, the specific …

Pedestrian injury outcome as a function of vehicle market group in Victoria, Australia

A D'elia, S Newstead - Traffic injury prevention, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Pedestrians are among the most vulnerable road users in terms of their risk of
serious injury when involved in a collision with a vehicle. In Australia, around 200 …

Are SUVs dangerous vehicles?

MD Keall, S Newstead - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2008 - Elsevier
This study was a population cohort study of all licensed passenger vehicles in New Zealand
in the years 2005–2006. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect on road safety …

Epidemiology of pedestrian–motor vehicle fatalities and injuries, 2006–2015

SL Chong, LW Chiang, JC Allen Jr, EW Fleegler… - American journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Pedestrian road safety remains a public health priority. The objective of this
study is to describe trends in fatalities and injuries after pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions …

Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedalcyclist injury severity

M Edwards, D Leonard - Journal of safety research, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction: Fatal pedestrian and pedalcyclist crashes have been on the rise in the United
States since 2009. This rise in fatalities coincides with the rise of large vehicles on American …

Understanding the new trends in pedestrian injury distribution and mechanism through data linkage and modeling

J Hu, C Flannagan, S Ganesan, P Bowman… - Accident Analysis & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to 1) collect and analyze recent pedestrian crash cases for
better understanding of the pedestrian injury distribution and mechanism, 2) use …