Characteristics of rear-end crashes involving passenger vehicles with automatic emergency braking

Mathematical Analysis of Braking in Rear-end Crash Scenarios

Recently, a test-based assessment method for forward-looking crash avoidance and mitigation systems (pre-crash systems) was developed within the EU project ASSESS. In this method, injury outcome is correlated with the change of velocity (Delta-V) during the crash and the effect of the pre-crash system on this quantity is investigated. Delta-V may be related to relative impact speed (i.e., the s...

Analyses of rear-end crashes based on classification tree models.

OBJECTIVE Signalized intersections are accident-prone areas especially for rear-end crashes due to the fact that the diversity of the braking behaviors of drivers increases during the signal change. The objective of this article is to improve knowledge of the relationship between rear-end crashes occurring at signalized intersections and a series of potential traffic risk factors classified by ...

Assessment of IVHS Countermeasures for Collision Avoidance: Rear-End Crashes

Pedestrian crashes: higher injury severity and mortality rate for light truck vehicles compared with passenger vehicles.

INTRODUCTION During the last two decades changes in vehicle design and increase in the number of the light truck vehicles (LTVs) and vans have led to changes in pedestrian injury profile. Due to the dynamic nature of the pedestrian crashes biomechanical aspects of collisions can be better evaluated in field studies. DESIGN AND SETTING s: The Pedestrian Crash Data Study, conducted from 1994 to...

Side impact motor vehicle crashes: driver, passenger, vehicle and crash characteristics for fatally and nonfatally-injured rear-seated adults

BACKGROUND Most studies of rear-seated occupants have focused on or included pediatric occupants which may not translate to adults. This study examines passenger, driver, vehicle and crash characteristics for rear-seated adult occupants involved in side crashes. METHODS The National Automotive Sampling System General Estimates System (NASS/GES) for calendar years 2011-2014 was used with accom...