Backover Studies

Learn more about backovers through studies specific to backover injuries and deaths. There have been several studies published about backovers, but there is still much to be learned.

• New Study Released on Nontraffic Injuries and Fatalities in Young Children – 9/27/2017
• Risk Factors Associated with Injury and Mortality from Paediatric Low Speed Vehicle Incidents: A Systematic Review (2013)
• Trauma Center-Based Surveillance of Nontraffic Pedestrian Injury among California Children (2012)
• Backing collisions: a study of drivers’ eye and backing behaviour using combined rear-view camera and sensor systems (2010)
• Back-over Collisions in Child Pedestrians from the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (2009)
• Not-in-traffic surveillance 2007 – children.Traffic safety facts.Washington DC: (2009)
• Pediatric driveway runover injuries: Time to redesign? (2009)
• Light Vehicle Rear Visibility Assessment (2008)
• Backover and non-crash events – special crash investigations – protecting children in and around cars, Lifesavers Conference (Portland, OR) (2008)
• NAPNAP position statement on the prevention of unintentional injuries in children (2008)
• Back-up detection devices: what do we all need to know? Dangerous blind zones (2007)
• NHTSA’s backover crash prevention research: Washington, DC (2007)
• Vehicle backover avoidance technology study: Washington, DC (2006)
• Risk of pediatric backover injuries in residential driveways by vehicle type (2006)
• Nonfatal Motor-Vehicle—Related Backover Injuries Among Children — United States, 2001-2003 (2005)
• Design and evaluation of a prototype rear obstacle detection and driver warning system (2005)
• The prevalence of driveway backover injuries in the era of sports utility vehicles (2005)
• An investigation of the potential safety benefits of vehicle backup proximity sensors, Washington,  DC (2005)
• The danger of blind zones: the area behind your vehicle can be a killing zone;  Washington, DC (2005)
• Data collection study: Deaths and injuries resulting from certain non-traffic and non-crash events, Washington, DC (2004)
• Pedestrian injuries and vehicle type in Maryland 1995-1999 (2004)
• Stereo Panoramic Vision for Monitoring Vehicle Blind-spots (2004)
• Children’s response to a commercial back-up warning device  (2003)
• The fatality and injury risk of light truck impacts with pedestrians in the United States (2003)
• Pedestrian injuries and vehicle type in Maryland  1995-1999 (2003)
• Low speed run-overs of young children in QLD (2003)
• The off road toll: Children at risk in driveways yards and carparks, Sydney, Australia (2003)
• Driveway-related motor vehicle injuries in the paediatric population: a preventable tragedy (2002)
• Driveway deaths: Fatalities of young children in Australia as a result of low-speed motor vehicle impacts (2002)
• Injuries and Deaths Among Children Left Unattended in or Around Motor Vehicles – United States, July 2000 – June 2001 (2002)
• Analysis of motor vehicle-related fatalities involving children under the age of six years (1995-2000) (2002)
• Pedestrian Injuries to Young Children (2002)
• Why our children are not as safe as we think they are, New Zealand (2002)
• Devices to reduce the risk to young pedestrians from reversing motor vehicles (2001)
• Vehicles reversing or rolling backwards: an underestimated hazard (2001)
• Outcomes of pediatric pedestrian injuries by locations of event (2001)
• Driveway Injuries in Children:  Risk Factors, Morbidity, and Mortality Pediatrics (2001)
• Four children crushed in their driveways, United Kingdom (2001)
• The danger of young pedestrians from reversing motor vehicles, Paper No. 466 (2001)
• Driveway motor vehicle injuries in children (2000)
• Child deaths and injuries in driveways: Response to the recommendations of the child death review team (2000)
• Rollover Injuries in Residential Driveways: Age-related Patterns of Injury (1999)
• Rear Cross-View Mirror Performance: Perception And Optical Measurements, Final Report HS 808 824 (1998)
• Driveway crush injuries in young children: a highly lethal, devastating, and potentially preventable event (1998)
• Nonambulatory ‘pedestrians”: infants injured by motor vehicles in driveways (1998)
• Injuries in the home: Toddler’s low speed run overs (1997)
• Paediatric Slow-Speed Non-Traffic Fatalities, 1985-1995, Australia (1997)
• Nonoccupant Fatalities Associated With Backing Crashes, NHTSA, Research Note (1996)
• Driveway-related child pedestrian injuries: a case-control study, Pediatrics (1995)
• Crush injuries to the head in children (1995)
• Pedestrian injuries to children younger than 5 years of age (1994)
• Differences in child pedestrian injury events by location (1994)
• Non-traffic child pedestrian injuries, New Zealand (1993)
• Unsupervised children in vehicles: a risk for pediatric trauma (1991)
• Pedestrian injuries to children younger than 5 years of age (1991)
• Limitations of data compiled from police reports on pediatric pedestrian and bicycle motor vehicle events(1990)
• Fatal pedestrian injuries to young children: a different pattern of injury, Canada (1988)
• The Development and Test of Urban and Rural Pedestrian Safety Messages (1983)
• Low Velocity Vehicular Injuries in Children—“Run-Over” Accidents (1980)