SUPPLEMENTAL NATIONAL CRASH SEVERITY STUDY ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION

The study collected accident data that would allow determination of the relationships between occupant injury and accident severity. The measure of severity most commonly used to characterize an accident is the velocity change experienced by the passenger compartment during the collision. In some 52% of the accidents contained in the pre-April 1978 NCSS data file, these velocity changes have been established with the CRASH computer program. However, it was felt that a substantial number of the remaining cases were reconstructable with other methods. As a result, procedures were developed to estimate velocity changes in two car accidents in which the damage to 484 additional accidents from the pre-April 1978 NCSS file have been reconstructed to the point of having velocity change estimates for the vehicles involved.

• Corporate Authors:

  MGA Research Corporation

  58 Sonwil Drive
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14225

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Segal, D J
  • McGrath, M T
  • Balasubramanian, N
• Publication Date: 1980-9

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 174 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Crash severity; Crashes; Data analysis; Injuries; Mathematical analysis; Statistical analysis; Traffic crashes; Vehicle occupants; Velocity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Change; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00337216
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: G-19-V-1 Final Rpt., HS-805 742
• Contract Numbers: DTNH-22-80-C-07065
• Files: HSL, NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 1982 12:00AM