This paper contains findings from the first series of comprehensive school bus collision experiments. The experiments conducted were: A head-on collision between two fully loaded moderate-sized school buses, each travelling 30 mph a stationary bus rear-ended by a passenger car travelling 60 mph; a stationary bus impacted on its right side by a passenger travelling 60 mph. The following categories relating to passenger injury causation were studied: location and type of impact structural integrity of vehicles, vehicle size, seat design, type of restraint on force moderator, type of safety glass passenger size, standing versus seated passenger, passenger kinematics and interactions, forces sustained by passengers and many related factors. Electronic instrumentation consisted of 61 transducers positioned in the anthropometrical dummy passengers, on the safety belts, and on the vehicles to record accelerations and forces during collision.
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