The association between passenger-vehicle front-end profiles and pedestrian injury severity in motor vehicle crashes

2024/06/20 by Wen Hu, Samuel S. Monfort, Jessica B. Cicchino · 1 voice · 2 citations
Medicine · Engineering · #Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics #Traffic and Road Safety #Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2024.06.007

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• New study: Vehicles are more likely to kill pedestrians if they have tall and blunt front ends and/or flat hoods. That's a major indictment of American SUV and truck design -- at a time when US pedes [bsky, 108 points, 0 comments]