MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 3

THE REPORT CONTAINS CASE SUMMARIES OF RECENT IN-DEPTH REPORTS SUBMITTED BY NHTSA SPONSORED MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION TEAMS IN A CONTINUING SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS. THESE CASE REPORTS ARE INDIVIDUAL, CLINICAL STUDIES OF ACCIDENTS GENERALLY INVOLVING VEHICLES OF THE THREE MODEL YEARS OF FATAL, INJURY PRODUCING, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE SEVERITY (SEVERE ENOUGH SO THAT AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE MUST BE TOWED FROM THE SCENE). THE TEAMS INVESTIGATE EACH ELEMENT OF THE COLLISION (HUMAN, VEHICLE, ENVIRONMENT) AS IT INTERACTS WITH EACH PHASE OF THE COLLISION (PRE-CRASH, CRASH, POST-CRASH). BASIC INFORMATION IS USED ON THE HIGHWAY AND VEHICLES INVOLVED, A DESCRIPTION OF THE DRIVERS AND OCCUPANTS INVOLVED, A PHASE-BY-PHASE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OF THE COLLISION, AND A LIST OF THE CASUAL FACTORS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS. /NTIS/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract No DOT-HS-600 859
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1972-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 252 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crash severity; Crashes; Multidisciplinary teams; Research; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221914
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 25 1973 12:00AM