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Analysis of Truck-Light Vehicle Crash Data for Truck Aggressivity Reduction
Technical Paper
2001-01-2726
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the University of Michigan Transportation Institute are investigating truck design countermeasures to provide safety benefits during collisions with light vehicles. The goal is to identify approaches that would best balance costs and benefits. This paper outlines the first phase of this study, an analysis of two-vehicle, truck/light vehicle crashes from 1996 through 1998 using several crash data bases to obtain a current description and determine the scope of the aggressivity problem.
Truck fronts account for 60% of light vehicle fatalities in collisions with trucks. Collision with the front of a truck carries the highest probability of fatal (K) or incapacitating (A) injury. Truck sides account for about the same number of K and A-injuries combined as truck fronts, though injury probability is substantially lower than in crashes involving the front of a truck. Light vehicle involvements with truck rear ends result in about half as many fatalities and serious injuries as either the front or side of a truck, but injury probabilities are higher than crashes involving truck sides, probably due to the light vehicle underriding the truck.
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Blower, D., Krishnaswami, V., Putcha, D., and Svenson, A., "Analysis of Truck-Light Vehicle Crash Data for Truck Aggressivity Reduction," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-2726, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-2726.Also In
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