FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RISK OF INJURY IN PASSENGER CAR AND OTHER VEHICLE COLLISIONS WITH TRUCK REAR END
NHTSA has performed a study of the occupant safety problem in cars and other vehicles which strike the rear ends of heavy trucks, and the results are reported in "Rulemaking Support Paper for Truck Rear End Guard Protection". That paper has identified the principal factors which influence the risk of occupant injury and has presented the values and corresponding probability distributions for each factor which characterizes the current and future universe of accident conditions. However, in the interest of brevity in that paper, references have been made to other documents for details. Therefore, this document has been written to provide more detailed consideration of the factors influencing occupant injury in vehicles impacting the rear of heavy trucks and to derive the representative values for such factors as well as their probabilities of occurrence.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Cooke, C
- Publication Date: 1980-6
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 26 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Distributions (Statistics); Hazards; Heavy vehicles; Injuries; Rear end crashes; Risk assessment; Trucks
- Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00361993
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-806 067
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Jun 30 1982 12:00AM