- Author
- Flora, J. D., Jr. | O'Day, J.
- Title
- Estimate of the Effect of FMVSS 301: Fuel System Integrity.
- Coporate
- Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor
- Journal
- Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 13, No. 2, 117-132, June 1981
- Keywords
- standards | fuel systems | fuel leakage | fire statistics | accidents | fire departments | crash fires | equations | automobile fires | damage | fire fatalities | passenger vehicles
- Identifiers
- passenger car fires; post-crash fuel leakage; fuel leakage rates per thousand crashes; crash fire rates (per 1000 crashes): police accident data; fires to crashes ratio (per 1,000 crashes): fire department data; estimated parameters and standard errors for the all means models; percent changes in fire rates associated with changes in FMVSS 301; fire rates by type of crash: Illinois and Washington; crash fire rates by speed and standard: Washington and Oklahoma; crast fire rates (per 1,000 crashes) by amount of damage: Michigan; Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS); passenger cars with fatality: FARS 1976-1978; rear-damaged passenger cars in fatal crashes: FARS 1976-1978