EEVC working group 14 activities in energy-absorbing front underrun protection
conference paper
The European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee (EEVC) established Working Group 14 (WG14) with the task to develop a test procedure and performance standard for energy-absorbing front underrun protection systems for trucks in order to reduce the injuries to car occupants in frontal collisions between passenger cars and trucks. WG14 defined a representative accident type, based on statistics analysis of European accident data involving car-to-truck frontal collisions. The influence of 'rigid' front underrun protection was estimated and the benefit of energy-absorbing systems was determined. The paper presents these activities. It appears that in the European Union yearly at least 250 car occupants would not be killed in car-to-truck frontal collisions if trucks would be equipped with energy-absorbing front underrun protection systems instead of rigid devices.
Topics
TNO Identifier
362178
Source title
SAE heavy vehicle underride protection TOPTEC, 15-16 April, 1997, Palm Springs, CA, USA
Collation
10 p.
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