GENDER AND AGE INFLUENCE ON FATALITY RISK FROM THE SAME PHYSICAL IMPACT DETERMINED USING TWO-CAR CRASHES

In the study presented in this scientific poster crashes between single occupant cars, one driven by a female and the other by a male, were selected from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The analysis establishes that females are more likely to die than males for ages from 20 to about 35, corrobating the higher precision results of an earlier study. The analysis also shows that the male and female fatality risk increases with increasing age are consistent with the higher precision results of the earlier studies using unrelated methods and data. The relatively close quantitative agreement between estimates using unrelated methods and non-overlapping data provides additional support for the interpreretation that each study is measuring fundamental differences in human response to blunt trauma insults. The agreement further solidifies the essential validity of each of the conceptually unrelated methods. For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E203784.