Citation

af Wåhlberg AE. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2004; 36(1): 63-71.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 1225, 75142, Uppsala, Sweden. anders.af_wahlberg@psyk.uu.se

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14572828

Abstract

A number of accident characteristics of bus crashes are analyzed in relation to each other using data from 2237 accident involvements in the city of Uppsala (Sweden) during the years 1986-2000. The breakdown of accidents into sub-categories show, for example, that injury was common in intersection accidents, that bus stops present large risk for shunts and side contacts, while single vehicle accidents were seldom preceded by the loss of control or a skid. The treatment of accident data is discussed in terms of methodology, statistics and data reduction strategies.

Language: en