Citation

Sivak M, Schoettle B, Reed M, Flannagan MJ. Accid. Reconstr. J. 2009; 19(2): 56-58.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Accident Reconstruction Journal)

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Abstract

A prior study in this series examined the difference in the frequency of lane change crashes between 2-door and 4-door body styles of the same vehicle models (Sivak et al., 2005). That study found that 4-door vehicles are more likely to be involved in lane-change crashes than are 2-door vehicles. It was postulated that this effect was a consequence of the more critical obstruction of lateral visibility on the 4-door models by the more forward location of the B-pillars. This paper extends the work of the aforementioned earlier paper by the same authors and, more specifically, investigates the tendency to be involved in lane-change crashes in relation to the locations and angular obstructions of the driver-side A-, B-, and C-pillars for a large set of vehicles.