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In Shanghai, in China, 23% of the 1097 serious accidents occurred between June 2005 and March 2013 are side impact accidents, there the leading collision mode, according to the Shanghai United Road Traffic Safety Scientific Research Center (SHUFO) database. [5] The head and neck are involved in around 64% of the casualties. [5]
A chain collision can be defined as "an accident involving three or more vehicles in which one vehicle has only rear impact damage (i.e., the "lead" vehicle); one vehicle has only frontal damage; and all other vehicles have frontal and rear impact damage (these are the "middle" vehicles)". [2]
The Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy cable car crash occurred on 1 July 1999 in Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy, France, when a cabin which was being operated on a privately owned aerial tramway detached from the cable it was traveling on, and fell into the valley below. The accident killed all twenty people on board.
This means that, for example, if two vehicles both moving at 45 MPH collide head-on, the effective crash speed is 90 MPH; if the weights of both vehicles are about the same, then the crash forces experienced by the occupants of both vehicles will be essentially equal to those forces that would be experienced if one of the vehicles were ...
Learn what to do if you are injured in a car accident — no matter who’s at fault. ... For example, if the at-fault driver has $50,000 in liability, but your medical expenses are $60,000, then ...
Traffic collision reconstruction is the process of investigating, analyzing, and drawing conclusions about the causes and events during a vehicle collision. . Reconstructionists conduct collision analysis and reconstruction to identify the cause of a collision and contributing factors including the role of the driver(s), vehicle(s), roadway and gen
The second impact, also known as second collision and human collision, is the impact suffered between a vehicle occupant and the vehicle during a collision. The first impact is the impact between the vehicle and another object. [1] There is also a third impact between the internal organs and the frame of the body.
A direct impact of widespread adoption of automated vehicles is the loss of driving-related jobs in the road transport industry. [16] [30] [31] [58] There could be resistance from professional drivers and unions who are threatened by job losses. [59] In addition, there could be job losses in public transit services and crash repair shops.