Research Article

A Comprehensive Analysis for the Heterogeneous Effects on Driver Injury Severity in Single-Vehicle Passenger Car and SUV Rollover Crashes

Table 6

Comparison of selected variable marginal effects (%).

VariablesPassenger carSUVDifference sign
NIISINIISINIISI

Male−13.05−1.53−19.63−2.18
Safety belt use−20.34−3.01−30.55−5.28
Airbag deployment17.362.126.920.73
Ejection or partial ejection29.5944.0530.7341.54
Drug or alcohol use17.552.5411.051.3
Failure to drive in single lane6.550.7712.481.45
Model year−0.27−0.03−0.88−0.09
Speed limit0.320.040.460.05
Adverse weather−9.26−0.93−10.12−0.93
Rural area−7.99−0.92−7.13−0.75

The difference sign is “” if the absolute value of marginal effects in SUV model is greater than that in passenger car model and “”otherwise. For instance, for male variable specified to SI, the absolute values of marginal effects in passenger car and SUV models are 1.53% and 2.18%, where 2.18% is greater than 1.53%. Thus, the different sign is “”.