Relationship between vehicle characteristics and injury severity (www.vias.be)

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This report published on August 30 by Vias (Belgium) studies the relationship between the car’s characteristics (such as size, weight and power) with injury severity in case of collision. It’s available in French and Dutch only, but it includes an English summary.

Here’s an excerpt:

With the exception of vehicle age, we find that vehicle characteristics that reduce the injury severity of car occupants, such as high mass, are more likely to be detrimental for the other party. For example, when the mass of a vehicle increases by 300 kg, the probability of fatal injuries for car occupants decreases by half while the same probability for the other party increases by 77% for car occupants and 28% for vulnerable road users, respectively. A similar pattern is seen for other vehicle characteristics such as power and pickup trucks. This indicates an opposite relationship between occupant safety and opponent safety, or put another way: vehicles with a high capacity to protect their occupants (= high crashworthiness) tend to have a lower capacity to protect the opponent (= high crash aggressiveness).

Big takeaway for me: if the vehicle hitting a pedestrian or a cyclist is a pick-up, the victim is 91% more likely to be severely wounded and 196% more likely to be killed.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

If there was only some governing entity that would prioritize the good of the whole community instead of selfish interests.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

big takeaway for me........ Etc etc

Good takeaway, it's also literally why people buy them. Just nut jobs with murder boners and the guise of safety to hide behind.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wish people had to take a course about the dangers of the different vehicles. They, supposedly, take a traffic course, right?, but most of them, at least where I live, don't ever take into consideration the danger they become when buying a bigger car.

They already receive a lot of warnings and learning with big truck driving courses

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

the occupant vs the "opponent" . . .
I'm sure something is lost in translation there, but it brings to mind chariots, tanks and warfare.

Not just some bloke trying to walk across the street to get to the pharmacy.

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