One in every five occupants thrown from a car receives fatal injuries. A motorist who uses a safety belt, in all probability, will not be thrown from the car during a crash. The rate of fatal injury for ejected occupants was found to be 40 times the rate for occupants not thrown from their cars, as determined from national accident sampling data. These data refute the popular notion that "being...

If you've ever been involved in a crash you'll know just how traumatic, costly and inconvenient it can be for all involved. That's why at Thatcham we're determined to 'stop the crash' for the benefit of all road users and our experts believe that Autonomous Emergency Braking is the most important new technology we've seen to achieve these ambitious aims. Thatcham is a world renowned motor vehic...

reviews in many countries indicate that drivers often talk on mobile (cell) phones. studies have been done on possible effects of concurrent mobile phone use on driving performance. previous studies have found that phone talking could impairs performance on simulated or instrumented driving tasks, using such measures as reaction time, following distance, and situational awareness. most of these...

This paper uses a heteroscedastic ordered probit model to distinguish the effects of vehicle weight, footprint and height on the severity of injuries sustained by vehicle occupants while controlling for many occupant, roadway and other characteristics. Model results suggest that the impacts of physical vehicle attributes on crash outcomes depend on the number of involved vehicles, and typically...

This paper studies the factors affecting injury severities involving motorcyclists of different age groups (under 25, 25-55, 55 and above) based on random parameter logit model. Data collected from motorcycle crashes in UK between 2017 2020 are utilized. The motorcyclist severity outcomes categorized as follows: minor injury, severe fatal injury. results likelihood ratio tests showed that trans...

A tragic car crash has killed two distinguished British researchers. Dame Anne McLaren and Professor Donald Michie died when their car came off the motorway between Cambridge and London last month. Anne McLaren was a leading geneticist who became the first female official of the Royal Society and Michie was a researcher in artificial intelligence who worked as part of the British codebreaking g...

The aim of this study is to see what the influence of tow-bars is in rear-end collisions, hereby looking at the crash pulse. The database from the Swedish insurance company Folksam and some full-scale tests performed by Autoliv [I, 241 give an indication that the tow-bar increases the injury risk. The increased average acceleration correlates to the increased injury risk. First of all a literat...

in the present paper, employing a complete model of a passenger car, contribution of various components and assemblies in the frontal crash energy absorption is determined. thickness of components with more remarkable contribution is increased to improve the occupant safety. furthermore, effects of substituting the metallic bumper with one fabricated from gmt materials on the frontal crash beha...

While the number of fatalities on Danish roads has decreased in the last 40 years, research has not investigated the contribution of legislation changes, enforcement measures, technological enhancements, infrastructural improvements and human factors to this reduction. In the context of a Danish car market with remarkably high registration tax that causes potential buyers to hold longer onto ol...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Safety measures like airbags and safety belts are nowadays commonly applied to improve the crash worthiness of road vehicles. Many governments stimulate or oblige by law car producers to include these devices in the vehicle design. Maximum values are imposed on parameters that quantitatively describe the severity of injuries. Examples are the Head Injury Criterion (HIC...