title: Driver injury severity: an application of ordered probit models.
abstract: This paper describes the use of ordered probit models to examine the risk of different injury levels sustained under all crash types, two-vehicle crashes, and single-vehicle crashes. The results suggest that pickups and sport utility vehicles are less safe than passenger cars under single-vehicle crash conditions. In two-vehicle crashes, however, these vehicle types are associated with less severe injuries for their drivers and more severe injuries for occupants of their collision partners. Other conclusions also are presented; for example. the results indicate that males and younger drivers in newer vehicles at lower speeds sustain less severe injuries.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin, 78712-1076, USA. kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu
authors.forename: Kara Maria
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kockelman
authors.forename: Young-Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kweon
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018986:Motor Vehicles / Q000145:classification; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality