Le Coz - Injury pattern of pedestrian hit by car of recent design, 1998 (pap. N° 98-s10-o-02Jean-Yves Foret-Bruno, Gerard Raverjon, Jean-Yv& Le Coz, Accidentology and Biomechanics Laboratory PSA Peugeot-Citroen-Renault, Injury pattern of pedestrians hit by cars of recent design, 16th ...
had been hit by a gas-powered vehicle, compared with just 2% by electric or hybrid cars -- not surprising, given how much more popular gas vehicles remain. but after taking into account number of miles driven, researchers found that electric and hybrid cars po...
The State Patrol says the woman was hit by the vehicle while she was attempting to cross Highway 95 in Cambridge just before 9 PM. The crash report does not include any information about where the victim lived. News Update:Prosecutors Seek Aggravated Sentence For Rochester Murder Suspect ...
The pedestrians were all standing together when they were hit. "This is a neighborhood that is disproportionally afflicted with traffic accidents," said Supervisor Matt Dorsey whose district includes the area. He said the SoMa area is crowded with lots of cars and pedestrians....
Researchers at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, believe that a new car design could significantly cut the number of pedestrians who are killed by cars at speeds of under 40 km/h. This car would have a polyurethane-padded bumper which would hit an adult pedestrian on the calf. The...
Rebecca Russo, a witness of the chase, said she saw three people hit by the car as it sped through the mall. "We were just standing on Bourke Street, and we heard a bit of a crash coming from the mall. I saw a maroon car driving up the pedestrian path on the Flinders Street side...
In the spirit of taking mattersinto one's own hands, someone in Toronto has been adhering posters to street poles around local crosswalks. "Almost hit by a vehicle at this crosswalk?" read the signs. "To share: #NearMissToronto."
as he crossed the eight-lane State Road 436 with the light, he was hit by a driver who didn’t notice the signals and later told officers at the scene that “I simply did not see him.” He was killed on impact. A monument now sits at the crosswalk he used, a single bicycle wheel...
Comparison of the pedestrian risk curves from the different datasets shows that the risk of pedestrian fatality is generally higher for the dataset from the 1970s, indicating that the probability of pedestrians being killed when hit by the front of a car has reduced over t...
A new study that examines the circumstances behind who is found at fault when cars hit pedestrians in an urban area shows that the environment where the crash took place – especially the types of roads and the amount of access to marked crosswalks – played a key role in whether the pedest...