Reducing Heavy Truck Aggressiveness Moving Heavy Truck into a 1987 Ford Taurus 4-Door Sedan at 91.9 kph

摘要

This report documents a crash test that was conducted for research anddevelopment in support of reducing heavy truck aggressiveness. This test was conducted with a 1987 Ford Taurus 4-door sedan, VIN 1FABP5245HG279598, at Transportation Research Center Inc. on March 14, 1995. The test vehicle was impacted on the left front of the vehicle heavy truck. The struck vehicle contained ten (10) accelerometers and one (1) instrumented Hybrid III driver dummy.