Evidence for Vehicles

The NHTSA’s Evaluation of Automobile Safety Systems: Active or Passive?

Objectives: Framework suggestion to the NHTSA.

Author(s): H. Hamid

Published: Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, 2007
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Fact Sheet: The Safety of Heavy Duty Vehicles

Objectives: To highlight the various safety factors relating to drivers of heavy duty vehicles.

Author(s): European Transport Safety Council

Published: European Transport Safety Council, 2005
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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The Safety of Vulnerable Road Users in the Southern, Eastern and Central European Countries (The “SEC Belt”)

This ETSC Policy Paper on the protection of vulnerable road users in the EU member states where the risks to road users are higher is part of ETSC’s publications series

Author(s): A. Avenoso and J. Beckmann

Published: European Transport Safety Council, 2005
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Efficacy of Side Air Bags in Reducing Driver Deaths in Driver-Side Collisions

Objectives: To establish the effectiveness of side air bags in preventing US driver fatalities.

Author(s): E. Braver and S. Kyrychenko

Published: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 2004
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Keeping Children Safe in Traffic

Objectives: This report aims to encourage a continuation of the progress achieved in children’s road safety over the past two decades by drawing attention to successful programmes and strategies that can be tailored and adopted by OECD countries.

Author(s): Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Transport Forum

Published: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Transport Forum, 2004
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Side Air Bags – Protection in Near Side Impacts

Objectives: Study in to effectiveness of side-impact safety features in US cars.

Author(s): S. Moran

Published: Center for Injury Sciences, University of Alabama, 2004
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Side Airbag Deployments in the UK – Initial Case Reviews

Objectives: Presenting initial cases of deployment from the UK, including examples where there is some suggestion that side airbag deployment may have contributed to injury outcomes.

Author(s): A. Kirk and A. Morris

Published: Loughborough University, 2003
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Head Restraints – The Neglected Countermeasure

Objectives: Review of methods to minimise the differential head/torso movement and reduce the resulting injuries, focusing on the necessary first step for prevention, which is a head restraint that is behind and close to the back of an occupant’s head during the RTI.

Author(s): B. O’Neill

Published: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1999
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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Whiplash Injury – Are Current Head Restraints Doing Their Job?

Objectives: To determine whether any other factors, in addition to head restraint adjustment, could be found which would influence the severity of whiplash injury.

Author(s): R. Minton (TRL), P. Murray, W. Stephenson, C. Galasko (University of Manchester)

Published: TRL and University of Manchester, 1999
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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The Euro NCAP Whiplash Test

Objectives: To highlight seats with known good and poor performance and to provide the maximum incentive to manufacturers to move towards best practice in seat design.

Author(s): M. van Ratingen, J. Ellway (Euro NCAP), M. Avery (Thatcham), P. Gloyns (VSC, on behalf of ICRT), V. Sandner (ADAC), T. Vermissen (TNO Science and Industry)

Published: M. van Ratingen, J. Ellway (Euro NCAP), M. Avery (Thatcham), P. Gloyns (VSC, on behalf of ICRT), V. Sandner (ADAC), T. Vermissen (TNO Science and Industry), no date
Date: 04 Feb 2013
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