A variety of utility vehicles, similar to the small multi-purpose military vehicles known as 'Jeeps', have become increasingly numerous on the highways since the 1970's. Because of their 'high rollover accident rates,' the U.S. Army stopped selling surplus military vehicles of this type to the public. With the crash experience of the military vehicles as background, Reinfurt and others (1981) examined the crash experience of certain utility vehicles and contrasted it with the experience of other motor vehicles. The current study updates and expands the previous work using more recent crash data. The present investigation provides recent data and includes additional utility vehicle models. This data base allows the study to focus on the leading utility vehicle models -- AMC Jeep CJ-5 and Jeep CJ-7, Ford Bronco, Chevrolet Blazer, and International Scout -- that represent the vast majority of the utility vehicles currently in use. Results were not obtained separately for the Jeep CJ-6, Jeep Scrambler, Toyota Land Cruiser, Plymouth Trail Duster, or Dodge Ramcharger because there were not sufficient numbers of them on the highways to obtain reliable crash experience results. They were, however, included in the results for the All Utility Vehicles group. The crash experience of a number of leading small (half-ton) pickup truck models was used for comparison purposes as small pickups and utility vehicles should have reasonably similar exposure. The pickup models studied were again the Ford F-100 and F-150, Chevrolet C-10 and K-10, and the smaller Toyotas and Datsuns.
Further Look at Utility Vehicle Rollovers (Revised)
1985
96 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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