Single-vehicle accident

Driver support

Published in John A. Michon, Generic Intelligent Driver Support, 1993

Wiel H. Janssen, Håkan Alm, John A. Michon, Alison Smiley

The aim of the third subtask of the driving task is, generally speaking, to keep the vehicle on the appropriate part of the road. Single-vehicle accidents in which no other road user is involved are typically the result of control task errors.

Study of the influence of impact velocity and angle of impact against a motorcyclists´ protection systems design and neural damage sustained using numerical methods

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Journal Information

Published in International Journal of Crashworthiness, 2018

Ramon Miralbes, David Ranz, Juan Peña

Upon analysis of the main cause of these accidents, only 3% were due to mechanical failure of the vehicle itself, usually a flat tyre; a defect on the road involved only 2% and a collision with an animal 1%. In the case of single vehicle accidents, the main cause was attributed to a human error (66%) of the driver, usually skidding and falling of the rider owing to overbreaking, or the wrong negotiation of a bend or excessive speed when doing so. Bad weather conditions were decisive only in 2% of the accidents.

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