The effect of decreases in vehicle weight on injury crash rates

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Drivers
  • Vehicle weight
  • Traffic crashes
  • Crash analysis
  • Crash injuries
  • Fatalities
  • Private passenger vehicles
  • Light trucks
  • Statistical analysis
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NTIS-PB97184006;DOT HS 808575
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404088
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00740610
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Vehicle Design ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents ; NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics
• Abstract:
  This study presents the results of an analysis to estimate the effect of a one hundred (1 00) pound reduction in the ; average weight of passenger vehicles on the crash rates of driver incapacitating injury. The analysis was conducted ; as a part of the effort by NHTSA to study the effect of hypothetical decreases in vehicle weight on the crashes, ; injuries, and fatalities of passenger car and light truck occupants. Crash data from Illinois (1990-1 992) and ; Florida (1 991-1 993) were used in the study. Using the KABCO injury scale, data from these states on fatal (K) plus ; incapacitating (A) injuries for crash involved drivers of model year 1985-1993 were analyzed. Assuming that the effect ; of hypothetical vehicle weight decreases on the odds of driver incapacitating injury is similar to that for all occupants, ; the following findings were noted: ; l A hypothetical 100 pound decrease in the average weight of light trucks and vans (LTVS) with passenger ; cars (PCS) unchanged would result in an estimated increase of 1,795 incapacitating injuries. ; l A hypothetical 100 pound decrease in the average weight of PCS with LTVS unchanged would result in an ; estimated increase of 8,804 incapacitating injuries. ; l A hypothetical 100 pound decrease in the average weight of all PCS and LTVS would result in an estimated ; increase of 10,543 incapacitating injuries.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12556/dot_12556_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 872.34 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6ca2007fad2426b70f5cd7e789285797b4a237c6dc8a9a369b517a4e250275d4