EXTENSIONS AND REFINEMENTS OF THE CRASH COMPUTER PROGRAM

The Calspan Reconstruction of Accident Speeds on the Highway (CRASH) computer program was modified to (1) improve its accuracy and user convenience in the prediction of trajectories involving spins, (2) permit the optional entry of two, four or six measurements of damage extent in the calculation of absorbed energy, (3) improve the interpretation of damage in oblique collisions, and (4) adapt the program as a preprocessor for the Simulation Model of Automobile Collisions (SMAC) computer program. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by National Highway Safety Administration, Washington, D.C. Part I is titled as Analytical Reconstruction of Highway Accidents, 28 pp; Part II is titled as Evaluation of the Accuracy of Reconstruction Techniques for Highway Accidents, 44 pp. Report available from NTIS, Nos: DOT-HS-801837 and DOT-HS-801839, respectively.
• Corporate Authors:

  Calspan Corporation

  4455 Genesee Street
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14225
• Authors:
  • MCHENRY, R R
  • Jones, I S
• Publication Date: 1976-2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programs; Crash injury research; Crashes; Reconstruction; Research; Traffic crashes; Trajectory; Vehicle trajectories
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141972
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Report/Paper Numbers: ZQ-5708-V-1 Final Rpt., ZQ-5708-V-2
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-5-01124
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 17 1977 12:00AM