The primary purpose of this research project was to have it serve as an integral part of the National Highway Safety Bureau in its national safety program and its focus on the systematic accumulation of a standardized and validated body of knowledge on the causes of motor vehicle crashes and the consequent injuries, deaths, and property losses. The objective of the program was to aid in accumulating a significant part of this data. This was done by developing it directly from on-site investigations of collisions by an appropriately trained team of physicians, engineers and other trained investigators. The research approach utilized personal interviews with injured occupants and their physicians, extraction of data from medical reports of clinical examinations of the injured and detailed investigations of the damaged vehicles at the vehicle storage site with full photographic coverage. A primary point of emphasis was the correlation of the vehicular kinematics with the occupant injury kinematics so that the feasibility of existing safety features in 1967, 1968 and 1969 automobiles could be formulated. Professional evaluation of all these factors was accomplished by the physicians and an engineering consultant who have shared major responsibilities in this study of seventeen motor vehicle collisions. (Author)


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    Title :

    Medico-Engineering Research Program


    Contributors:
    J. R. Finch (author) / A. W. White (author) / J. P. Smith (author)

    Publication date :

    1969


    Size :

    457 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Medico-Engineering Research Program: A Report on 15 Vehicle Crashes

    J. R. Finch / J. P. Smith / A. W. White | NTIS | 1969



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