Crash risk of ESC-fitted passenger cars.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that modern passenger cars provide a significant crash risk reduction, which depends on both ESC and passive safety features introduced. Results also show that exposure evaluation in terms of registration years (or vehicle population) instead of true mileage can provide an overly pessimistic view of the crash risk.
PMID: 31013176 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - April 22, 2019 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Koisaari T, Kari T, Vahlberg T, Sihvola N, Tervo T Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research