Potential of a Time-Triggered Crash System of a Steering Column on Driver Injuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Wesely ◽  
Hermann Steffan
Keyword(s):  
Driver Injuries

Differences between older and younger drivers; characteristics of fatal car crashes and driver injuries

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harmeet Sjögren ◽  
Ulf Björnstig ◽  
Anders Eriksson ◽  
Mats Öström
Keyword(s):  
Car Crashes ◽  
Driver Injuries

Injury Severity of Truck Drivers in Crashes at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (10) ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waleed A. Khan ◽  
Aemal J. Khattak
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Injury Severity ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Mixed Logit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Road User ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Road ◽  
Grade Crossing ◽  
Driver Injuries

The physical and operational characteristics of large trucks distinguish them from other types of vehicles in terms of facility design needs and safety requirements. A critical node in the surface transportation network is the highway-rail grade crossing (HRGC) because it represents a conflict point between different modes of transportation. The focus of this research was to identify factors related to different injury severity levels of truck/truck-trailer drivers in crashes reported at HRGCs. This study utilized a mixed logit model to investigate injury severity of those drivers and relied on 2007–2014 Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) crash and inventory data involving trucks/truck-trailers. Results showed that truck/truck-trailer drivers’ injuries in crashes reported at HRGCs were positively associated with train speed, when train struck the road user (truck/truck-trailer), when the driver “went around crossing gates”, older drivers, crashes reported in rural areas, and crashes at crossings with a minimum crossing angle of 60–90 degrees. Presence of crossbucks, gates, track obstructions, and HRGCs located within 500 feet of a highway were associated with relatively less severe driver injuries. The paper provides recommendations for safety improvements at HRGCs and recommendations for future research.

Driver Injuries in Auto Road Racing

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
M. A. Boitano
Keyword(s):  
Road Racing ◽  
Driver Injuries

A strategy to reduce older driver injuries at intersections using more accommodating roundabout design practices

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Lord ◽  
Ida van Schalkwyk ◽  
Susan Chrysler ◽  
Loren Staplin
Keyword(s):  
Older Driver ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Driver Injuries

scholarly journals Estimating transport safety of propane-butane mixture with event and fault trees and probability methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 170-175
Author(s):  
Jacek Michalski
Keyword(s):  
Probabilistic Method ◽  
Total Risk ◽  
Delivery Vehicle ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
Butane Mixture ◽  
Transport Safety ◽  
Driver Injuries ◽  
Probability Methods ◽  
Propane Butane

The threat of people as a result of delivery vehicle fire handling 11 kg and 33 kg bottles with propane-butane, due to leakage of these bottles was estimated. The probability of unsealing LPG bottles with gas during the year at loading, unloading and transport operations in carrier trade company was determined. Partial and total risk of serious driver injuries and the risk of death in the event of a fire in open load-carrying body of the car and tire damage was estimated. The risk assessment uses the methods of the event and fault tree as well as the probabilistic method.

Are SUVs “Supremely Unsafe Vehicles”?: Analysis of Rollovers and Injuries with Sport Utility Vehicles

2003 ◽  
Vol 1840 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad J. Khattak ◽  
Marta Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Injury Severity ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Crash Analysis ◽  
Abbreviated Injury Scale ◽  
Rollover Risk ◽  
Light Trucks ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
Single Vehicle ◽  
Driver Injuries ◽  
Binomial Models

With increasing speed limits and more light trucks penetrating the market, concern over their rollover risk is growing. In particular, the general public and automobile manufacturers would like to know if the increasingly popular sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are indeed safer than other vehicle platforms. The influences of various vehicle platforms on rollovers and driver injuries were investigated. Specifically, ( a) the rollover intensities of SUVs vis-à-vis those of other vehicle types in single-vehicle crashes and ( b) the severity of the resulting driver injury were explored. Data from a good-quality federally maintained database were used for crash analysis. The database contains a relatively clean stratified sample of police-reported tow-away crashes nationwide, and it contains detailed information about vehicle rollovers. Rollover intensity, captured by the number of quarter turns, was investigated by using weighted negative binomial models; injury severity, measured on the abbreviated injury scale, was examined by using weighted ordered logit models. New insights emerged about the factors that increase rollover intensity and injury severity. As expected, SUVs are more likely to roll over and therefore injure their occupant drivers more severely. However, SUVs also protect their drivers during collisions because of their greater crashworthiness. In fact, the SUV crashworthiness effect exceeds the rollover effect, on average. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Socio-demographic and trauma-related predictors of depression within eight weeks of motor vehicle collision in the AURORA study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jutta Joormann ◽  
Samuel A. McLean ◽  
Francesca L. Beaudoin ◽  
Xinming An ◽  
Jennifer S. Stevens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Motor Vehicle Collision ◽  
Vehicle Collision ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Driver Injuries ◽  
Peritraumatic Distress

Abstract Background This is the first report on the association between trauma exposure and depression from the Advancing Understanding of RecOvery afteR traumA(AURORA) multisite longitudinal study of adverse post-traumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae (APNS) among participants seeking emergency department (ED) treatment in the aftermath of a traumatic life experience. Methods We focus on participants presenting at EDs after a motor vehicle collision (MVC), which characterizes most AURORA participants, and examine associations of participant socio-demographics and MVC characteristics with 8-week depression as mediated through peritraumatic symptoms and 2-week depression. Results Eight-week depression prevalence was relatively high (27.8%) and associated with several MVC characteristics (being passenger v. driver; injuries to other people). Peritraumatic distress was associated with 2-week but not 8-week depression. Most of these associations held when controlling for peritraumatic symptoms and, to a lesser degree, depressive symptoms at 2-weeks post-trauma. Conclusions These observations, coupled with substantial variation in the relative strength of the mediating pathways across predictors, raises the possibility of diverse and potentially complex underlying biological and psychological processes that remain to be elucidated in more in-depth analyses of the rich and evolving AURORA database to find new targets for intervention and new tools for risk-based stratification following trauma exposure.

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