The Accident Investigation Division of the National Highway Safety Bureau is conducting in-depth studies of highway crashes through contracts with university and research based multidisciplinary teams generally consisting of various medical specialities, highway and traffic engineers, automotive and mechanical engineers, police investigators, lawyers, psychiatrists, and other safety related disciplines. This program has the following basis study objectives: to identify all of the contributing factors in automobile crashes; to identify injury causation; to evaluate the effectiveness of countermeasures; and to provide early detection of design and functional problems of the vehicle and the highway. The document is comprised of summaries of recent in-depth studies submitted by these teams to the National Highway Safety Bureau. The full case report may be obtained through NTIS.
Multidisciplianry Accident Investigation Summaries, Volume 1, Number 4
1970
389 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Pipeline Transportation , Motor vehicle accidents , Accident investigations , Reviews , Collision research , Intersections , Roads(Curvature) , Attention , Blood chemical analysis , Ethyl alcohol , Ejection , Night vision , Brakes(Motion arresters) , Deterioration , Automobile collisions , Young male drivers , Radial skidding , Highway merging , Freeway exists , Pavement width transition