Frequency and cost of crashes, fatalities, and injuries involving disabled vehicles.

CONCLUSIONS: A significant number of people die or are injured in low conspicuity events every year; an estimated 1.55 deaths and nearly 40 injuries per day. This analysis highlights the risks to a special subset of pedestrians: motorists who exited their vehicles to attend to a disabled or stopped vehicle. These deaths and injuries that result from crashes related to low-conspicuity events are preventable. Countermeasures to reduce the incidence and severity of the crash scenarios studied should be explored. PMID: 33493939 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33493939?dopt=Abstract

Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - January 22, 2021 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Spicer R, Bahouth G, Vahabaghaie A, Drayer R Tags: Accid Anal Prev Source Type: research