MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES; VOLUME 4, NUMBER 5

THE REPORT CONTAINS CASE SUMMARIES OF RECENT IN-DEPTH REPORTS SUBMITTED BY NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION SPONSORED MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION TEAMS IN A CONTINUING SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS ACCIDENTS ARE STUDIED WHICH INVOLVE VEHICLES OF THE LAST THREE MODEL YEARS AND ARE OF FATAL, INJURY PRODUCING, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE SEVERITY. THE TEAMS INVESTIGATE THE ACCIDENTS IN-DEPTH, CONCERNING THEMSELVES WITH EACH ELEMENT OF THE COLLISION (HUMAN, VEHICLE, ENVIRONMENT) AS IT INTER- ACTS WITH EACH PHASE OF THE COLLISION (PRE-CRASH, CRASH, POST-CRASH). THE SUMMARIES CONSIST OF IDENTIFICATION INFOR- MATION, BASIC INFORMATION ON THE HIGHWAY AND VEHICLES IN- VOLVED, A DESCRIPTION OF THE DRIVERS AND OCCUPANTS WITH THEIR INJURIES, A PHASE-BY-PHASE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCE OFEVENTS OF THE COLLISION, AND A LIST OF THE CAUSAL FACTORS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. A DIAGRAM OF EACH COLLISION IS INCLUDED. /NTIS/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • DOT-HS-601 395
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1973-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 321 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash diagrams; Crash investigation; Drivers; Environment; Fatalities; Human characteristics; Injuries; Vehicle characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222381
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 16 1974 12:00AM