NHTSA’s Vehicle Compatibility Research Program
1999-01-0071
03/01/1999
- Event
- Content
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is conducting a research program to investigate the crash compatibility of passenger cars, light trucks and vans (LTV’s) in vehicle-to-vehicle collisions. NHTSA has conducted a series of eight full-scale vehicle-to-vehicle crash tests to evaluate vehicle compatibility issues. Tests were conducted using four bullet vehicles representing different vehicle classes striking a mid-size sedan in both side and oblique frontal crash configurations. The test results show a good correlation between vehicle aggressivity metrics and injury parameters measured in the struck car for the frontal offset tests, but not for the side impact tests.
- Pages
- 8
- Citation
- Summers, S., Prasad, A., and Hollowell, W., "NHTSA’s Vehicle Compatibility Research Program," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0071, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0071.