Bull bars and road trauma /
This report investigates the positive and negative aspects of bull bars with regard to road trauma in Australia through assessment of the current literature and analysis of fatal road crash data. Quantification of risk is limited by a number of factors, including restricting the analysis to fatal cr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Canberra] :
Australian Transport Safety Bureau,
2000.
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| Series: | CR ;
200 Road safety research report (Australian Transport Safety Bureau) ; CR200. |
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| Online Access: | Access electronic version |
| Summary: | This report investigates the positive and negative aspects of bull bars with regard to road trauma in Australia through assessment of the current literature and analysis of fatal road crash data. Quantification of risk is limited by a number of factors, including restricting the analysis to fatal crashes, incompleteness of data on the bull bar status of vehicles involved in crashes, lack of data on animal strikes and the difficulty of isolating effects of bull bars from other factors associated with injury outcomes, such as vehicle size and speed. Current improvements in bull bar design may offset the risks for pedestrians and other vulnerable road users predicted by experimental studies and the possible risks indicated in an analysis of side impact crashes. |
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| Item Description: | "December 2000". At head of t.p.: Dept. of Transport and Regional Services, Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Series name given as "Road safety report" on title-page, "Road safety research report" on cover. |
| Physical Description: | 50 p. : ill., graphs, tables ; 30 cm. Also available on the Internet at: http://www.atsb.gov.au/road/research/bull-bars.pdf. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, p. 42-44. |
| ISBN: | 0642255504 |
| ISSN: | 0810-770X 0810-770X ; |