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Title: EVALUATING HUMAN RISK IN SIDE IMPACT COLLISIONS WITH ROADSIDE OBJECTS
Accession Number: 00802526
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Full-scale crash tests are traditionally used to assess the danger posed by roadside objects. Crash test evaluation criteria should relate the observable response of the vehicle and the struck object to the likely risk of injury to vehicle occupants in similar real-world collisions. Side impact collisions are particularly serious impacts, but no evaluation guidelines exist. A simple method is presented for determining human risk in a side impact collision with a roadside object from the velocity profile of the impacted face of the struck object. This method not only eliminates the use of anthropometric test devices in crash tests, but also gives conservative values to account for the variable occupant position at the time of impact.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1720, Roadside Safety Features and Hydraulic, Hydrology, and Water Quality Issues.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Ray, M HHiranmayee, KPagination: p. 67-71
Publication Date: 2000
Serial: ISBN: 0309066980
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Nov 16 2000 12:00AM
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