MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES
THIS REPORT CONTAINS CASE SUMMARIES OF RECENT IN-DEPTH REPORTS SUBMITTED BY NHTSA SPONSORED MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION TEAMS IN A CONTINUING SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING VOLUME 4, NOS. 2 AND 3; AND VOLUME 3, NO. 7. THESE CASE REPORTS ARE 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). THE 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 OF THE SUMMARIES CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT CONSISTS OF IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, BASIC INFORMATION ON THE HIGHWAY AND VEHICLES INVOLVED, A DESCRIPTION OF THE DRIVERS AND OCCUPANTS INVOLVED (WITH THEIR INJURIES), A PHASE-BY-PHASE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OF THE COLLISION, AND A LIST OF THE CASUAL FACTORS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH EMANATE FOR THE REPORTS. FINALLY, AS AN AID, A DIAGRAM OF EACH COLLISION IS REPRESENTED AS THE LAST PAGE OF EACH CASE SUMMARY. /AUTHOR/
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 1973-4
Media Info
- Pagination: 867 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crash severity; Crashes; Multidisciplinary teams; Research
- Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00224355
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Oct 16 1973 12:00AM