Analysis of frontal crash safety performance of passenger cars, light trucks and vans and an outline of future research requirements.

Author(s)
Hackney, J. Hollowell, W.T. & Cohen, D.S.
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Abstract

Since 1979, almost three hundred vehicle crash tests have been conducted in the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). Parameters from the crash tests of the vehicles are presented in this paper. Analysis of these parameters relative to the frontal crash safety are performed. The studies are conducted with fleet weighted populations and include both passenger cars and light trucks and vans. Comparisions of vehicle performance are made which support the feasibility of potentially improved safety levels within the vehicle. Based on the potential for improved safety and on recent projections of fatalities and injuries by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an outline of possible future frontal crashworthiness research is presented. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference, see IRRD 837684.

Publication

Library number
C 51244 (In: B 30201 [electronic version only]) /91 / IRRD 837695
Source

In: Twelfth International Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 29 - June 1, 1989, Volume 1, p. 233-41, 4 ref.

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