American journal of public health
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Comparative Study
Automobile driver fatalities in frontal impacts: air bags compared with manual belts.
The effectiveness of air bags was estimated in this study by comparing driver fatalities in frontal crashes with driver fatalities in nonfrontal crashes, for cars with air bags and manual belts and cars with manual belts only. ⋯ It was estimated that air bags reduced the total number of all driver fatalities by about 19%.