FRONTAL IMPACT PROTECTION REQUIRES A WHOLE SAFETY SYSTEM INTEGRATION
Beyond the generalization of the belt wearing, the improvement of the frontal impact protection is one of the most efficient ways to reduce the number of the severe road victims. However, the attempt to evaluate the potential gains shows some important limitations to this efficiency and indicates the necessity of complementary actions. These include: (1) the front-end of the trucks needs to be modified to avoid underride and too severe decelerations of car occupants; (2) due to the interaction between the protection in frontal and in lateral impact, the gain in frontal impacts could be lost by an increase of the aggressiveness of the impacting car in side collisions: and (3) the gain in car-to-car head-on collisions would be reduced by the increasing aggressiveness of the heavier car. This paper presents the quantification of the expected gains for the most prioritary countermeasures, discusses the major interactions between them, and attempts to define the required conditions to optimize the whole safety system. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 864606.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
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Authors:
- Tarriere, C
- Thomas, C
- Trosseille, Xavier
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1993-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 1079-1087
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Frontal crashes; Prevention; Safety; Stiffness; Vehicles; Weight
- ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 1640: Head on collision; 9149: Prevention; 1665: Safety; 5931: Stiffness; 1255: Vehicle; 5485: Weight
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00665025
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD, USDOT
- Created Date: Sep 9 1994 12:00AM