Hazardous effects of highway features and roadside objects. Volume 2: Findings.

Author(s)
Perchonok, K. Ranney, T.A. Baum, A.S. Morris, S. & Eppich, J.D.
Year
Abstract

Hazards in run-off-road accidents are determined. Findings reflect (1) sample descriptors; (2) factors influencing the occurrence of run-off-road accidents; (3) the characteristics of road departures and factors influencing them; (4) off-road events and factors influencing them, including the effects of offset and clear zones; (5) impact behaviour speed, area of damage, and objects struck; (6) effects of impact characteristics on severity; and (7) effects of driver, road, manoeuvre on severity.

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Library number
B 15799 /82.1/83.2/ (Volume 1 see B 16242)
Source

Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Transportation DOT, Federal Highway Administration FHWA, 1978, 332 p., tab.; FHWA-RD-78-202

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