MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES. VOLUME III, NUMBER 8.

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 STUDIES OF ACCIDENTS GENERALLY INVOLVING VEHICLES OF THE LAST THREE MODEL YEARS OF FATAL, INJURY PRODUCING, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE SEVERITY. THE TEAMS INVESTIGATE THE ACCIDENTS IN-DEPTH CONCERNING THEMSELVES WITH THE ELEMENTS OF THE COLLISION (HUMAN, VEHICLE, ENVIRONMENT) AS IT INTERACTS WITH EACH PHASE OF THE COLLISION (PRE-CRASH, CRASH, POST-CRASH). THE SUMMARIES CONSISTS OF IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, BASIC INFORMATION ON THE HIGHWAY AND VEHICLES INVOLVED, A DESCRIPTION OF THE DRIVERS AND OCCUPANTS, A PHASE-BY-PHASE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OF THE COLLISION, AND A LIST OF THE CASUAL FACTORS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH EMANATE FOR THE REPORTS. THE DIAGRAM OF THE COLLISION IS REPRESENTED IN EACH CASE SUMMARY. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No DOT-HS-601-084
• 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: 1972-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 229 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash diagrams; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crash types; Crashes; Fatalities; Injuries; Loss and damage; Property; Research
• Uncontrolled Terms: Property damage
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224445
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 20 1974 12:00AM