Citation

Ray MH. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1999; 31(1-2): 21-30.

Affiliation

The University of Iowa, Center for Computer Aided Design, Iowa City 52242, USA. mhray@ccad.uiowa.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10084615

Abstract

Designing vehicles and roadside structures that are safer in side-impact collisions is an emerging area of concern in roadside safety research. Selecting impact conditions that are relevant to the way side-impact collisions occur in real world collisions is an important part of developing effective full-scale crash test procedures and evaluation criteria. If test impact conditions are unrealistically severe, improving the performance of roadside hardware for side-impacts may appear unfeasible. If test impact conditions are not demanding enough, good performance in full-scale crash tests may not be indicative of good performance in real-world crashes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the best available accident data to determine what the reasonable worst case test impact conditions are for side-impacts with roadside objects.