Crash Injury Reduction and Post-Crash Factors Evaluations -Ford ESV's (Experimental Safety Vehicles) -Forty-MPH,Fifty-MPH,and Low-Speed Barrier Impacts.

摘要

The report presents the results of front and rear low-speed bumper tests and the 40-and 50-mph frontal flat-barrier tests conducted on two Ford experimental safety vehicles. The primary objectives of the test series were to evaluate vehicle damage in low-speed impacts and to determine the occupant and structural responses of the Ford experimental safety vehicles when subjected to 40-and 50-mph front barrier impacts. Post-crash factors evaluations were also performed to evaluate rescue and emergency egress.