Traffic injury prevention
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Traffic injury prevention · Jun 2007
Efficacy of side airbags in reducing driver deaths in driver-side car and SUV collisions.
To estimate the efficacy of side airbags in preventing driver deaths in passenger vehicles struck on the driver side. ⋯ Side airbags substantially reduce the risk of car and SUV driver death in driver-side collisions. Making side airbags with head protection available to drivers and right front passengers in all passenger vehicles could reduce the number of fatalities in motor vehicle crashes in the United States by about 2,000 each year.