Safety of the Japanese K-car in a real-world low severity frontal collision.

Conclusions: Although we are generally concerned that drivers of small vehicles suffer more severe injuries, our results suggest that, for real-world accidents, K-cars provide similar safety for drivers involved in frontal collisions as do standard vehicles in low delta V impact conditions.
PMID: 24499113 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - February 5, 2014 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Hitosugi M, Matsui Y Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research