A Summary of Recent Side Impact Research Conducted by the Federal Highway Administration

Authors

• Martin W. Hargrave - Federal Highway Administration McLean, VA
• Allen G. Hansen - Analysis Group, Inc. Washington, DC
• John A. Hinch - ENSCO, Inc. Springfield, VA

Topic

• Side impact crashes
• Injuries
• Fatal injuries
• Research and development
• Test procedures
• Roads and highways
• Technical review

Citation

Also In

References

1. Hargrave M.W. and Hansen A., “The Federal Outdoor Impact Laboratory: A New Outdoor Laboratory for Evaluating Roadside Safety Hardware,” Presented at the 1987 Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Boston, Massachusetts, Paper No. 87-WA/DSC-13, December 1987.
2. Willke D.T. and Monk M.W., “Side Impact Fixed Pole Testing of the NHTSA Modified Vehicle,” Report No. DOT-HS-806-865, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C., September 1985.
3. Bell L., “Side Impact Aggressiveness Attributes, Car-to-Pole Side Impact Test of a 45 Degree Crabbed Moving 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit into a Fixed Rigid Pole at 19.95 mph,” Report No. 840629. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Vehicle Research and Test Center, East Liberty, Ohio, August 1984.
4. Bell L., “Side Impact Aggressiveness Attributes, Car-to-pole Side Impact Test of a 45 Degree Crabbed Moving 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit into a Fixed Rigid Pole at 20.1 mph,” Report No. 840706, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Vehicle Research and Test Center, East Liberty, Ohio, September 1984.
5. Bell L., “Side Impact Aggressiveness Attributes, Car-to-Pole Side Impact Test of a 45 Degree Crabbed Moving 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit into a Fixed Rigid Pole at 24.9 mph,” Report No. 840803. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Vehicle Research and Test Center, East Liberty, Ohio, September 1984.
6. Bell L., “Side Impact Aggressiveness Attributes, Car-to-Pole Side Impact Test of a 45 Degree Crabbed Moving 1977 Volkswagen Rabbit into a Fixed Rigid Pole at 25.0 mph,” Report No. 840816. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Vehicle Research and Test Center, East Liberty, Ohio, September 1984.
7. Owings R.P., Adair J.W. and Rudd T.J., “Safer Sign and Luminaire Supports: Task J, Full Scale Impact Tests,” Report No. FHWA-RD-76-34, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., February 1976.
8. Buth C.E., Olson R.M. and Samuelson G., “Crash Tests and Evaluation of Highway Appurtenances: Volume 1, Sign and Luminaire Supports,” Report No. FHWA-RD-79-92, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., September 1979.
9. Hinch J.,, et al., “Laboratory Procedures to Determine the Breakaway Behavior of Luminaire Supports in Mini-sized Vehicle Collisions: Volume II, Technical Report,” Report No. FHWA/RD-86/106, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., August 1987.
10. Owings R.P. and Hinch J.A., “Task Results Report for Selection of Side Impact Test Vehicle and Impact Conditions,” Unpublished Report (Available from FHWA, HSR-20, Hargrave, M.W.), Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., May 1984.
11. National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 230, “Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation of Highway Appurtenances,” Transportation Research Board, March 1981.
12. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “Side Impact Anthropomorphic Test Dummy,” Docket No. 88-07, Notice 1, 53 Federal Register 2254, 27 January 1988.
13. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, “Occupant Crash Protection in Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks and Buses,” Washington, D.C.
14. Eppinger R.H., Marcus J.H. and Morgan R.M., “Development of Dummy and Injury Index for NHTSA's Thoracic Side Impact Protection Research Program,” SAE Paper No. 840885, May 1984.
15. Morgan R.M., Marcus J.H., Eppinger R.H., “Side Impact - The Biofidelity of NHTSA's Proposed ATD and Efficacy of TTI,” SAE Paper No. 861877.
16. Hackney J.R.,, et al., “Update of the NHTSA Research Activity in Thoracic Side Impact Protection for the Front Seat Occupant,” SAE Paper No. 872207.
17. “Human Tolerance to Impact Conditions and Related to Motor Vehicle Design,” SAE Information Report J 885a, October 1966.
18. “Dynamic Crash Test Information Guide,” Version II, Automated Sciences Group, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland, January 1982.
19. The Abbreviated Injury Scale, American Association for Automotive Medicine, Morton Grove, Illinois, 1980 Revision.
20. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#1-87, Springfield, Virginia, August 1987.
21. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#2-87, Springfield, Virginia, August 1987.
22. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#3-87, Springfield, Virginia, October 1987.
23. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#4-87, Springfield, Virginia, October 1987.
24. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#5-87, Springfield, Virginia, October 1987.
25. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#6-8, Springfield, Virginia, August 1988.
26. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#7-88, Springfield, Virginia, August 1988.
27. Hinch J.A. and Stout D., “Thirty MPH Broadside Impact of a Mini-Sized Vehicle Into a Breakaway Luminaire Support,” ENSCO Report Number 1785-SI#8-88, Springfield, Virginia, August 1988.

Cited By