ACCIDENT EXPERIENCE WITH IMPACT ATTENUATION DEVICES

The report presents a summary and analysis of the field accident data of the impact attenuators approved by Instructional Memorandum 40-1-71 and as reported by the states under the National Experimental and Evaluation Program Project No. NEEP-4, 'Impact Attenuator Devices', administered by the Office of Highway Operations, Federal Highway Administration.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Viner, J G
  • Boyer, C M
• Publication Date: 1973-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 33 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Crash injury research; Crashes; Field studies; Highways; Impacts; Research; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Attenuation; Barriers; Field data; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00051601
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 25 1974 12:00AM