Reducing Heavy Truck Aggressiveness Moving Heavy Truck into a 1989 Ford Taurus 4-Door Sedan at 83.0 KPH

摘要

The report documents a crash test that was conducted for research and developmentin support of reducing heavy truck aggressiveness. The test was conducted with a 1989 Ford Taurus 4-door sedan, 1FABP52U9KG218701 at the Transportation Research Center Inc. on October 12, 1992. The test vehicle was impacted on the front left corner of the vehicle by the heavy truck. The struck vehicle contained ten (10) accelerometers and one instrumented Hybrid III driver dummy.