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Injury Outcome in Crashes with Guardrail EndTerminals

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The goal of this study is to evaluate the crash performance of guardrail end terminals in real-world crashes. Guardrail end terminals are installed at the ends of guardrail systems to prevent the rail from spearing through the car in an end-on collision. Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy as to the safety of certain widely used end terminal designs, partly because there is surprisingly little real-world crash data for end terminals. Most existing studies of end terminal crashes used data from prior to the mid-1990s. Since then, there have been large improvements to vehicle crashworthiness and seat belt usage rates, as well as new roadside safety hardware compliant with National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350, “Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation ofHighway Features.” Additionally, most existing studies of injury in end terminal crashes do not account for factors such as the occurrence of rollover. This analysis uses more recent crash data that represent post-1990s vehicle fleet changes and account for a number of factors that may affect driver injury outcome and rollover occurrence.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Traffic Injury Prevention

No. Panggil

ATC LO JOH i

Penerbit

Reson, Virginia : Taylor and Francis., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

7 p.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1538-957X

Klasifikasi

LO

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

2015

Subjek

fixed object
guard-rails
crashworthiness
injury outcome

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Nicholas S. Johnson

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