MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 6

The report contains case summaries of recent in-depth reports submitted by National Highway Safety Adiministration sponsored Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Teams in a continuing series of publications. Accidents are 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 each element of the collision (human, vehichle, environment) as it interacts with each phase of the collision (pre-crash, crash, post-crash). The summaries consist of identification information, basic information on the highway and vehicles invloved, a description of the drivers and occupants with their injuries, a phase-by-phase description of the sequence of events of the collision, and a list of the causal factors, conclusions and recommendations. A diagram of each collision is included.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 4, Number 5, PB-223 976
• 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: 1973-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 336 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashes; Design standards; Fatalities; Highways; Human factors engineering; Injuries; Research; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Identifier Terms: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents
• Old TRIS Terms: Nhtsa
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00051504
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-HS-601-447
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 28 1974 12:00AM