Table 6.
Variable | Marginal Effects | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Severe Injury | Evident Injury | Possible Injury | No Injury | |
Person Characteristics | ||||
Male | −0.0074 | −0.0291 | −0.0395 | 0.0761 |
Use of restraint system | −0.0855 | −0.1737 | −0.1313 | 0.3904 |
Age under 25 | −0.0037 | −0.0162 | −0.0243 | 0.0441 |
Age above 64 | 0.0066 | 0.0249 | 0.0325 | −0.0640 |
Vehicle Characteristics | ||||
Truck | −0.0210 | −0.0855 | −0.1265 | 0.2330 |
Vehicle with one or more trailing units | −0.0113 | −0.0560 | −0.0974 | 0.1647 |
Driver drinking in vehicle | 0.0139 | 0.0476 | 0.0567 | −0.1182 |
Roadway and environment | ||||
Icy or snowy road surface | −0.0046 | −0.0218 | −0.0350 | 0.0614 |
Dark | 0.0064 | 0.0251 | 0.0339 | −0.0654 |
Dawn or dusk | 0.0132 | 0.0453 | 0.0540 | −0.1125 |
Crash mechanism | ||||
Going straight before crash | 0.0027 | 0.0116 | 0.0170 | −0.0314 |
Starting/stopped in road before crash | −0.0124 | −0.0609 | −0.1055 | 0.1787 |
Critical event-other vehicle stopped in lane | −0.0062 | −0.0276 | −0.0424 | 0.0762 |
Critical event-other vehicle in lane traveling in the same direction while decelerating | −0.0063 | −0.0295 | −0.0469 | 0.0827 |
Temporal Characteristics | ||||
Weekdays | 0.0025 | 0.0101 | 0.0143 | −0.0269 |
Spring | 0.0020 | 0.0084 | 0.0119 | −0.0223 |