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Table 5 Probabilities of suffering a serious injury, depending on the use of seat belt and the different variables of the conditioning factor. Processed by the Authors
From: Influence of seat-belt use on the severity of injury in traffic accidents
Variables | N° cases | KSI Risk medium | Use of Seat-Belt (KSI Risk) | Comments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Unknown | ||||
Vehicle Type | ||||||
Car | 241,092 | 2.13% | 2.22% | 14.01% | 0.89% | Cars, van, all-terrain |
Buses | 4400 | 2.39% | 1.39% | 6.77% | 0.63% | Minibus <=17 passengers, bus, bi-articulated bus |
Trucks | 12,359 | 2.99% | 2.85% | 17.10% | 1.46% | Rigid Truck, Truck, articulated, articulated vehicle |
Road-Type | ||||||
High speed road | 47,125 | 2.39% | 2.22% | 20.81% | 2.40% | Motorways, dual carriageway, others high speed roads |
Medium speed road | 61,064 | 5.53% | 5.07% | 38.04% | 3.93% | Conventional roads of 1 and 2 lanes |
Low speed road | 144,350 | 0.68% | 0.57% | 5.84% | 0.43% | Service ways, streets, neighbor roads, private roads |
Others | 5143 | 2.29% | 2.13% | 20.05% | 1.35% | Bike roads or similar |
Collision Type | ||||||
Collision | 201,504 | 2.12% | 2.19% | 12.58% | 0.89% | Frontal, side, and multiple collision, collision by range or against obstacle |
Run Over | 24,279 | 1.20% | 1.20% | 8.60% | 0.58% | Running over a person or an animal |
Turn upside down | 8528 | 5.15% | 4.89% | 29.79% | 2.65% | |
Vehicle fall | 3985 | 2.65% | 2.84% | 15.70% | 0.92% | Fallen down a mountain or in the city |
Others | 19,433 | 2.49% | 2.46% | 15.21% | 1.19% | Get out of the way or similar |
Visibility | ||||||
Adequate visibility | 178,839 | 3.60% | 3.64% | 22.84% | 1.52% | |
Inadequate Visibility | 76,837 | 5.09% | 5.44% | 25.26% | 1.94% | |
Unknown | 2175 | 0.64% | 0.61% | 4.29% | 0.37% | |