Crash characteristics of motorcyclists impacting road side barriers
Motorcyclist serious injuries and fatalities significantly contribute to road trauma in Australasia. The role of road side safety barriers in such trauma is an area of growing concern amongst motorcyclists, road authorities and road safety researchers and advocates. This paper is the second of a series of papers presenting results from a retrospective case study of motorcyclists that were fatally injured following a collision with a road side barrier during the period 2001 to 2006 in Australia and New Zealand. In this paper, characteristics of the crashes such as barrier and motorcycle types, crash modes, motorcyclist kinematics, pre-crash speeds and impact trajectory angles are documented.
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Corporate Authors:
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Melbourne, Victoria Australia -
Authors:
- Bambach, M
- GRZEBIETA, R
- McIntosh, A S
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Conference:
- Australasian Road Safety Research Policing Education Conference, 2010
- Location: Canberra ACT, Australia
- Date: 2010-8-31 to 2010-9-3
- Publication Date: 2010-9
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 6p
- Monograph Title: Safe system: from knowledge to action: Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2010: 31 August-3 September 2010, National Convention Centre, Canberra, ACT: proceedings
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Crash analysis; Injuries; Injury severity; Motorcyclists
- Geographic Terms: Australia; New Zealand
- ITRD Terms: 8531: Case study; 1686: Safety fence; 1623: Severity (accid, injury)
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01332741
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ITRD, ARRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 15 2011 11:27AM