Field relevance of a suite of rollover tests to real-world crashes and injuries

Logistic model of injury risks in single vehicle crashes in urban neighborhoods

“…Consistent with Lee and Mannering 10, out study found that crashes during peak hours increase the likelihood of injury and fatality. Also, a positive association is also found between rollover and crash injury, a result that is consistent with previous findings 17, 21, 33. Finally, struck objects crashes are found to be less serious in our study because of the low speed environment and vehicle protection.…”

“…Although the risk factors affecting severity of single vehicle crashes has been studied extensively in various studies 9–14, 15–19, 20–22, most of these studies have focused on rural roads or high speed roads, with little attention devoted to analyzing the contributing factors for single vehicle crashes on urban low speed roads only. For example, Lee and Mannering 10 estimated the effects of roadside features on run‐off‐road crashes on State Route 83 in the American State of Washington while Dhungana and Qu 11 examined single vehicle crash severity on 50 mph roads.…”

Vehicle rollover risk and electronic stability control systems

“…We examined rollover risk by ESC group for all MVCs and rollover risk in single-vehicle MVCs, by vehicle body type and rollover type (tripped and all rollovers), as it has been suggested that both rollover occurrence and severity vary by these factors 18. Whether the effect of standard available ESC varied by SSF strata (high and low) was also examined; values for SSF were only available for model years 1996–2003 and ranged from a low of 0.95 to a high of 1.75, and a median value of 1.37.…”

Risk of Injury and Fatality in Single Vehicle Rollover Crashes: Danger for the Front Seat Occupant in the “Outside Arc”

“…Rollovers can be classified using both the cause of the rollover and the direction of the roll. 4 There is also a classification of passengers in the rollover crash using the degree of the rotational torque during the rollover. The passenger subjected to the greatest degree of initial rotational torque is termed to be on the ''outside arc,'' whereas the passenger with the lesser degree of initial rotational torque is termed to be on the ''inside arc'' ( Figure 1).…”