LIGHT TRUCK SAFETY: AN UNFOLDING STORY
This paper reviews a decade's research into the crash safety of light trucks, which include pickups, light vans, and utility vehicles. The three light-truck types are consistently found to have higher rollover rates than cars have in single-vehicle accidents. Rollover crashes, in turn, generally exhibited higher injury rates than other crashes. Nevertheless, injury rates of light trucks and cars differed little in single-vehicle crashes. In two-vehicle crashes, light truck occupants were found better protected than car occupants. Light trucks evidenced aggressiveness in damaging other vehicles and injuring their occupants. (Author/TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
American Association for Automotive Medicine
2350 East Devon Avenue, Suite 205
Des Plaines, IL United States 60018Tulane University
6823 Saint Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA United States 70118 -
Authors:
- Terhune, K W
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Conference:
- 31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
- Location: NEW ORLEANS LOUSIANA, United States
- Date: 1987-9-28 to 1987-9-30
- Publication Date: 1987
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 389-307
- Monograph Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, SEPTEMBER 28-30, 1987
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aggression; Automobiles; Crashworthiness; Injuries; Light trucks; Rollover crashes; Single vehicle crashes; Vehicle safety
- Old TRIS Terms: Vehicular safety
- ITRD Terms: 1612: Accident rate; 1631: Collision; 8525: Conference; 1614: Damage; 1234: Delivery vehicle; 2163: Injury; 1637: Overturning (veh); 9149: Prevention; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 1715: Vehicle occupant
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00470476
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 31 1988 12:00AM