A CHARACTERIZATION OF COLLISIONS, RSULTING DAMAGE AND OCCUPANT INJURY

THIS STUDY WAS PREPARED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST BY THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES FOR DATA USEFUL IN EVALUATING GENERAL STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES. OF INTEREST WERE QUESTIONS ON THE AGGRESSIVITY OF VEHICLE FRONTAL STRUCTURES, OCCUPANT PROTECTION BY THE ENERGY-ABSORBING ABILITY OF THE VEHICLE EXTERIOR, GENERAL ACCIDENT IMPACT SPEED, AND VEHICLE DAMAGE CHARACTERISTICS. THE DATA INCLUEDED DETAILED OVERALL ACCIDENT DN DAMAGE TYPES, MEAN IMPACT SPEEDS FOR VARIOUS ACCIDENT CONFIGURATIONS, DAMAGE EXTENT FOR DIFFERENT ACCIDENT TYPES, AND MEAN INJURY LEVELS AND SOURCES OF FATAL INJURIES BY COLLISION CONFIGURATION. AN ATTEMPT IS ALSO MADE TO SUMMARIZE THE COLLISION AND INJURY FREQUENCY DATA TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE ORDERING OF OCCUPANT PROTECTION PRIORITIES BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF A "DANGER INDEX" FOR EACH ACCIDENT TYPE AND FOR EACH OCCUPANT SEAT POSITION. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  Office of Accident Investigation and Data Analysis, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1972-8

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: 31 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injury research; Crash severity; Crash types; Crashes; Crashworthiness; Fatalities; Injuries; Loss and damage; Speed
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222062
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 8 2002 12:00AM