Crashworthiness is an estimate of the occupant protection provided by a vehicle, namely the risk of a driver of a vehicle being killed or admitted to hospital when involved in a crash. This project further investigated the relationship between vehicle crashworthiness and both the year of manufacture and the year of first registration in New Zealand. Analysis was based on New Zealand light passenger vehicles manufactured from 1964 to 2020 and crashing during 1991 to 2020. Analysis by year of first registration in New Zealand was aimed at assessing crashworthiness trends in the fleet of used imported vehicles in New Zealand whilst analysis by year of manufacture examined trends in the fleet as a whole. Crashworthiness was measured by a combination of injury severity (of injured drivers) and injury risk (of drivers involved in crashes). The ratings were adjusted for the sex and age of the driver, the speed limit at the crash location, the number of vehicles involved in the crash and the year in which the crash occurred. The crashworthiness rating estimates the risk of the driver being killed or admitted to hospital when involved in a crash, to a degree of accuracy represented by the confidence limits of the rating in each case. Analysis of trends by year of vehicle manufacture showed statistically significant improvement in the crashworthiness of New Zealand light passenger vehicles over the years of manufacture studied. The most rapid improvement occurred over the years of manufacture from 1983 to 2007. Over the period of analysis, the risk of death or serious injury to drivers reduced by around 73.7% for the fleet as a whole. During this period vehicle safety in New Zealand was affected by several competing effects: a general increase in both active and passive safety features in vehicles; increasing proportions of used imported vehicles entering the New Zealand fleet; and increases in the regulation of vehicle safety standards by the New Zealand Government. Estimates of crashworthiness trends in the used import ...
Trends in crashworthiness of the New Zealand vehicle fleet by year of manufacture: 1964 to 2020:Supplement to report 362 - vehicle safety ratings estimated from police-reported crash data: 2022 update
2022-12-01
Newstead , S , Rampollard , C , Budd , L , Watson , L & Cameron , M 2022 , Trends in crashworthiness of the New Zealand vehicle fleet by year of manufacture: 1964 to 2020 : Supplement to report 362 - vehicle safety ratings estimated from police-reported crash data: 2022 update . MUARC , Melbourne Vic Australia . < https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/3124116/UCSR-2022-Update-MUARC-Report-362-Supplement,-Dec-2022-Final.pdf >
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