MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES, VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2

THE REPORT CONTAINS CASE SUMMARIES OF RECENT IN-DEPTH REPORTS CONSISTING OF INDIVIDUAL CLINICAL STUDIES OF ACCIDENTS, GENERALLY INVOLVING VEHICLES OF THE LAST THREE MODEL YEARS, OF FATAL, INJURY PRODUCING, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE SEVERITY (SEVERE ENOUGH SO THAT AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE MUST BE TOWED FROM THE SCENE). TEAMS INVESTIGATE EACH ACCIDENT IN-DEPTH, CONCERNING THEMSELVES WITH EACH ELEMENT OF THE COLLISION (HUMAN, VEHICLE, ENVIRONMENT) AS IT INTERACTS WITH EACH PHASE OF THE COLLISION (PRE-CRASH, CRASH, POST-CRASH.). EACH CONSISTS OF IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, BASIC INFORMATION ON THE HIGHWAY AND VEHICLES INVOLVED, A DESCRIPTION OF THE DRIVERS AND OCCUPANS INVOLVED, A PHASE-BY-PHASE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OF THE COLLISION, AND A LIST OF THE CAUSAL FACTORS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. A DIAGRAM OF EACH COLLISION IS REPRESENTED. /NTIS/

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1972-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 240 p.
• Serial:
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crash severity; Crashes; Multidisciplinary teams; Research
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221949
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 20 1973 12:00AM