Citation

Hutchinson TP, Anderson RWG. Transp. Res. D Trans. Environ. 2010; 15(2): 123-125.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.trd.2009.10.006

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Attention is called to evidence that in collisions between vehicles of equal mass, and in single-vehicle collisions, there is unlikely to be a very strong effect of car size on injury severity, and that variation in crashworthiness within the set of car models of a given size has a much larger effect. Consequently, the secondary safety of a national fleet of small cars in the future could be as high as that of a national fleet of large cars today.