Highway Safety: Causes of Injury in Automobile Crashes
PEMD-95-4
Published: May 09, 1995. Publicly Released: May 09, 1995.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed highway safety, focusing on: (1) the most important predictors of injury in an automobile crash; (2) how the risk of injury in a crash is affected by the severity and type of crash, automobile size, safety belts and airbags, and the occupants' age and gender; and (3) areas for further reducing automobile occupants' crash injury risks.
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