The Co-operative Crash-Injury Study (CCIS) is the UK's largest retrospective accident investigation study. It has been in its current form since 1983. Its sixth phase begins on 1st June 1998. The study is funded by the UK's Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), and is currently co-sponsored by six motor manufacturers: Ford, Rover, Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Daewoo. The study is managed by the Transport Research Laboratory, in Berkshire, England. Data are collected, from various locations around England, by five teams from the Vehicle Inspectorate Executive Agency and two University based teams - the Birmingham Accident Research Centre (BARC), Birmingham University and the Vehicle Safety Research Centre (VSRC) of the Institute of Consumer Ergonomics, Loughborough University. The study has used CRASH3 as a tool to provide an estimate of impact severity throughout the lifetime of the project. Recently, work was undertaken to investigate the possibility of harmonising crash investigation within Europe. Those aspects which were common to Europe's three main studies - the Co-operative Crash-Injury Study (UK), BASt (Germany) and INRETS (France) - were sought. CRASH3 and PC CRASH were identified as the crash severity assessment tools used. The results from each program are comparable with the other as each program uses the same algorithms to calculate Delta-V and ETS. (A)
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