Typologie of traffic accidents concerning cars impacted by trucks
VALLET ; RAMET ; CESARI ; DOLIVET
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
VALLET ; RAMET ; CESARI ; DOLIVET
Résumé / Abstract
The road traffic mixes in the same flow lights cars and heavy trucks: when then a large part of severe traffic accidents concerns trucks impacting light vehicles. Actually, if this type of accident does not occur frequently (4.5 % of all accidents), it is very serious and 10 % of traffic death are due to it. Using the sample of our bidisciplinary accident investigation, this study, concerning 53 cases of actual accidents, tries to precise the typology of truck-to-car accidents and the influence of the type of impact on car occupant?s lesions. Then, it determines the more representative impacts conditions.
