Accident Reconstruction/Simulation With Event Recorders

In 1997, 42,000 people were killed in highway accidents in the United States. The exact cause of an accident is often unknown and, therefore, conclusions relating to the safety afforded by the vehicle to the occupant cannot be made. In addition, safety hazards in the highway environment are often not discovered due to the lack of information. Accident reconstruction is a tool commonly used by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to investigate the accident sequence, but data are often lacking and accurate reconstructions are difficult and time-consuming. Because many assumptions are made in this process, the reconstruction is not exact, making it difficult to accurately predict occupant kinematics and to identify potential safety hazards within the vehicles. Vehicle recorders would eliminate much of the guesswork involved in reconstructing accidents, enabling a more accurate assessment of occupant injuries, driver performance, and safety hazards within and around a vehicle.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ntsb.gov/events/symp_rec/proceedings/posters/bolte/bolte.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594

  International Transportation Safety Association

  Apeldoorn,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Bolte, Kristin
  • Jackson, Lawrence
  • Roberts, Vernon
  • McComb, Sarah
• Conference:
  • Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond. International Symposium on Transportation Recorders
  • Location: Arlington VA, United States
  • Date: 1999-5-3 to 1999-5-5
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: n.p.
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transportation Recorders. Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond, May 3-5, 1999, Arlington, Virginia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Crash causes; Crash data; Crash investigation; Crash reconstruction; Drivers; Event data recorders; Fatalities; Hazards; Highway safety; Injuries; Kinematics; Performance; Simulation; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Vehicle occupants; Vehicle safety
• Identifier Terms: U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01087885
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 2008 11:42AM