Characteristics of Heavy versus Passenger Cars - Deliverable Report D836
May 2006, Public Deliverable

This studie is based on analysis of traffic accidents information of the participating countries (France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Spain. Traffic accidents from the national data of the years 1985-2003 came from France, The Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom. Four countries provided information from in-depth databases (Germany(147 cases), The Netherlands(4), Greece(6), Spain(4)). Most of the heavy truck front against passenger car side accidents appear to happen on rural roads with the highest lethality rate. From the in-depth data no conclusion can be drawn about the effectiveness of "Frontal Underrun Protection" systems. Most of the passenger car front against heavy truck side accidents appear to happen on rural roads with the highest lethality rate.

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