Airbags plus car accident linked to death, United States
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that airbags installed in automobiles have saved the lives of 10,000 people since January 2004 - but a recently published study by a statistician at the University of Georgia, however, doubts on this statement. In fact, said UGA statistics professor Mary C. Meyer, a new analysis of existing data indicates that controlling for other factors, airbags are actually associated with a slightly higher chance of death in accidents.NHTSA recorded 238 deaths due to airbags between 1990 and 2002, according to the information on these deaths on their website, said Meyer. All occurred at very low speeds, with injuries that could have been caused by something else. But it is reasonable to conclude that airbags cause
death only at very low speed? It seems more likely to cause death even at high speeds, but are attributed to chance.allow us to find patterns in data and compare the risks in the population, in a variety of situations. The study was published this week in the journal Chance. The new analysis directly contradicts earlier studies on the effectiveness of driver and front passenger airbags on all vehicles since model year 1998 required the United States. Although the value of airbags seems dubious in the new study, not the value of the seat belt.
a safety belt reduces the likelihood of death by 67 percent for any given speed category and airbag availability. Airbags cause, however, no statistically significant difference in the car crash deaths, except for unseatbelted
occupants at low speeds, where the probability of death is estimated more than four times as high as with an air bag than without. Its good for some time that the specific air bag risks to children and small women known.inflation of the airbag. The reason why previous studies have shown that airbags save lives is to use only a special part of the available data, said Meyer. Systems analysis reports and victim (FARS)
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