PROTECTION OF CAR OCCUPANTS IN FRONTAL IMPACTS WITH HEAVY LORRIES: FRONTAL STRUCTURES

A review, mainly of head-on impacts between lorries and motor cars, is given. This type of collision results in a greater number of fatalities than is caused by cars colliding into the rear of a lorry. It is maintained that to protect car occupants more fully than at present, it is necessary to modify current lorry frontal structural design and some suggestions pertinent to this are given.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Johnson, W
  • Walton, A C
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 111-123
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Impact Engineering
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0734-743X
  • Serial URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-impact-engineering

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Fatalities; Frontal crashes; Heavy vehicles; Rear end crashes; Restraint systems; Structural design; Vehicle design
• Old TRIS Terms: Occupant restraint
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452229
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-038 656
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM