Patterns of Automobile Crash Damage

740065

02/01/1974

Event
1974 Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
An analysis of 15,000 repair estimates written nationwide on 1973 model passenger cars has been completed by State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. Among the findings presented in this paper are the distribution of impact points around the car, distribution of repair cost, repair and replacement frequencies of certain components, and an analysis of repair cost spending by component assembly.
A procedure is described which will monitor the crash damage sustained by new cars through the systematic collection and analysis of insurance company damage repair estimates. In the future, performance comparisons of various model year vehicles will be possible.
The availability and limitations of other insurance industry data sources are also discussed.
Meta TagsDetails
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/740065
Pages
22
Citation
Sorenson, W., Gardner, R., and Casassa, J., "Patterns of Automobile Crash Damage," SAE Technical Paper 740065, 1974, https://doi.org/10.4271/740065.
Additional Details
Publisher
Published
Feb 1, 1974
Product Code
740065
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English