Crashworthiness analysis of the January 26, 2005 Glendale, California rail collision

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• Creators:
  Parent, Daniel ; Tyrell, David C. ; Jacobsen, Karina ; Severson, Kristine J.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crashworthiness
  • Side collisions
  • Deformation
  • Fatalities
  • Railroad crashes
  • Crash analysis
  • Derailments
  • Field studies
• Publication/ Report Number:
  JRC2011-56132
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  California
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Abstract:
  In Glendale, California on January 26, 2005, impact with ; an SUV on the track caused a southbound commuter train to ; derail, impact a standing freight train, buckle laterally outward, ; and rake the side of a northbound commuter train. Significant ; deformation resulted in the front of the southbound train and ; the side of the northbound train. There were a total of eleven ; fatalities and over one hundred injuries. This incident was ; investigated as a part of an ongoing field study of occupant ; injury in passenger train collisions and derailments currently ; being conducted by the United States (US) Department of ; Transportation's (DOT) Rail Accident Forensic Team in support ; of the Equipment Safety Research Program of the Federal ; Railroad Administration (FRA). The Forensic Team ; determined that the primary causal mechanism of injuries and ; fatalities in the Glendale incident was the loss of occupied ; volume of the passenger cars brought about by severe structural ; deformation.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9125/dot_9125_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.63 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; Federal Railroad Administration
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