The West Mercia Constabulary collected data on 310 tire failures observed between junctions four and eight on the M5 motorway between September and November 1971. The data are analysed in this report. Retreaded tires were found to fail more often than original treaded tires and heavy goods vehicles were found to suffer tire failure more frequently than private cars although this tended to lead to fewer accidents than with cars. About two percent of all tire failures led to injury accidents and three percent to all accidents that were reported. The results are in agreement with a previously reported result that about one sixth of all injury accidents have tire failure as a major contributary factor. The risk of failure increased with tire wear for car tires. (Author)


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    Titel :

    Tyre Failures on Part of M5 Motorway


    Beteiligte:
    R. W. Lowne (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1973


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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