A FURTHER LOOK AT UTILITY VEHICLE ROLLOVERS

The focus of this study is the rollover accident and injury experience of drivers of utility vehicles, half-ton pickup trucks and passenger cars. This study is a follow-up on a previous study by Reinfurt et al, 1981 on the same subject. In this earlier work, statewide police-reported accident data from North Carolina (1973-1978) and Maryland (1974-1978) was utilized along with national data from FARS (Fatal Accident Reporting System) for 1978-1979. As the results were so very consistent between North Carolina and Maryland, this follow-up study uses data only from North Carolina crashes for the period 1979-1982.

• Record URL:
  http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/research_library/PDFs/Further84.ocr.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599
• Authors:
  • Reinfurt, D W
  • Stutts, J C
  • Hamilton, E G
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 78 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Automobiles; Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Evaluation; Gender; Injuries; Location; Motor vehicles; Pavements; Pickup trucks; Rollover crashes; Single vehicle crashes; Speed; Time; Traffic speed; Utility vehicles
• Identifier Terms: Jeep automobile
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Pavement conditions
• Old TRIS Terms: Jeeps; Pickups
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394734
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 834
• Files: HSL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 30 1985 12:00AM