Secondary collisions revisited: real-world crash data and relationship to crash test criteria.
Conclusions: Consistent with previous research, collisions following a barrier impact are not an infrequent event and substantially increase driver injury risk. The results suggest that using exit-angle based crash test criteria alone to assess secondary collision risk is not sufficient to predict second collision occurrence for real-world barrier crashes.
PMID: 23259518 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Gowat RC, Gabauer DJ Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research