THE EFFECT OF VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS ON ROAD ACCIDENTS

This book investigates the relation between car characteristics, particularly those defining handling and stability, and accident frequency. Detailed studies of accidents are used to determine the circumstances which lead to loss of control or overturning and hence show which accidents are likely to be influenced by the handling and stability characteristics of cars. It includes an analysis of accident rates by make and model of car and the effects of age and sex of driver are assessed.(a) /TRRL/

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Jones, I S
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 219 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Automated vehicle control; Braking; Crash rates; Design; Drivers; Driving; Females; Freeways; Handling characteristics; Human beings; Human characteristics; Manual safety belts; Manufactures; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Overturning; Tires; Traffic crashes; Vehicle characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics; Mileage; Models
• ITRD Terms: 1612: Accident rate; 1757: Age; 6471: Analysis (math); 1874: Braking; 9011: Design (overall design); 1772: Driver; 6488: Length; 1787: Man; 3647: Manufacture; 6205: Model (not math); 2752: Motorway; 1637: Overturning (veh); 1476: Safety belt; 1381: Tyre; 1646: Vehicle handling; 1788: Woman
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00142417
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 0 08 018963 6
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 19 1977 12:00AM