Empirical relationships between car size, car weight and crash injuries in car-to-car crashes.

Author(s)
O'Neill, B. Joksch, H. & Haddon, W.
Year
Abstract

Relationships between car size, car weight, and severity of occupant crash injuries in car-to-car crashes are developed using a simple mathematical model to analyze real-world crash data. For vehicles using the same roads, these relationships suggest a crash wirthiness design concept for intervehicular crashes that regards increases in vehicle size as primarily protective, and increases in vehicle weight as primarily hostile, indicating the desirability of relatively sizeable but not heavy vehicles.

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B 13857 (In: B 7042 [electronic version only]) /84/91.1/ IRRD 231589
Source

In: Report on the 5th International Technical Conference on Enhanced Safety of Vehicles ESV, London, England, June 4 - 7, 1974, p. 362-368, 3 tab., 13 ref.

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