Heavy commercial vehicle design and other road users.

Author(s)
Mackay, M. & Walton, A.
Year
Abstract

This paper reviews some of the published data on crashes in Europe involving trucks and buses with other road users. The mass ratio effect in relation to car occupants is discussed, together with the mismatching of structures. The greatest risk of death for a car occupants is in cases where trucks strike the sides of car. The consequences for designs emphasize the importance of geometrical and structural matching of under-run protective structures, particularly at the front of trucks.

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Library number
B 23752 (In: B 23751 [electronic version only]) /84/91/ IRRD 281815
Source

In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine, Denver, Colorado, October 8-10, 1984, p. 1-14, fig., graph., tab., ref.

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