The overturning of cars as a result of severe braking.

Author(s)
Kemp, R.N. & Neilson, I.D.
Year
Abstract

A theoretical study of the incident suggested that the overturning could be explained by the car being braked within a small critical range of brake pressures, the rear wheels losing adhesion and causing the car to spin, this building up a sideways acceleration and a rotation in roll. This might have been sufficient to overturn the car on a surface having a high coefficient of friction.

Publication

Library number
A 1192 [electronic version only]
Source

Crowthorne, Road Research Laboratory RRL, 1966, 26 p.; RRL Laboratory Report ; LR 103

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