Vehicle safety characteristics in vulnerable driver populations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

National data suggest drivers who are younger, older, and have lower socioeconomic status (SES) have heightened crash-related injury rates. Ensuring vulnerable drivers are in the safest vehicles they can afford is a promising approach to reducing crash injuries in these groups. However, we do not know the extent to which these drivers are disproportionately driving less safe vehicles. Our objective was to obtain population-based estimates of the prevalence of important vehicle safety criteria among a statewide population of drivers.

Methods

We analyzed data from the NJ Safety and Health Outcomes warehouse, which includes all licensing and crash data from 2010-2017. We borrowed the quasi-induced exposure method's fundamental assumption-that non-responsible drivers i

SUBMITTER: Metzger KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910315 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature