IMPLICATIONS OF SMALL PASSENGER CARS ON ROADSIDE SAFETY

The safety implications of passenger car downsizing are of much current interest. Vehicle-vehicle collisions and vehicle-roadside accidents are the two major accident modes that may be affected by passenger car downsizing. This article reviews the roadside fatal accident problem and the implications of passenger vehicle downsizing on major kinds of roadside fatal accidents.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This is a condensation of an article in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Conference, American Association for Automotive Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, October 3-6, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research and Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Viner, J G
• Publication Date: 1984-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 54-62
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Breakaway supports; Compact automobiles; Downsizing; Fatalities; Guardrails; Lighting columns; Median barriers; Overturning; Roadside; Sign supports; Single vehicle crashes; Utility poles; Vehicle safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Small car; Vehicular safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I80: Accident Studies; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00393916
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 737
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM