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A vehicle rollover minutes after a crash. All vehicles are susceptible to rollovers to various extents. Generally, rollover tendency increases with the height of the center of mass, narrowness of the axle track, steering sensitivity, and increased speed. The rollover threshold for passenger cars is over 1 g of lateral acceleration.
Three adults died early Sunday morning at the scene of a car wreck in Southeast Austin, according to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Three people killed when car falls from Texas ...
Rollover (fire), a stage of a structure fire; Rollover, the former name of Gilchrist, Texas, U.S. Rollover Pass; Roll Over, a park ride by Mondial (amusement ride manufacturer) Dynamic rollover, a helicopter's susceptibility to roll when close to the ground; Vehicle rollover, a type of vehicular crash in which a vehicle tips over onto its side ...
A Mercury Tracer that was damaged by colliding with a white-tailed deer in Wisconsin. Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: . Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object.
An accident on U.S. 278 is blocking morning traffic on Hilton Head Island, according to an alert sent from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Thursday morning just after 8 a.m. The crash ...
This helps any driver that runs off the edge of the roadway to maintain control while trying to steer back onto the pavement. A vertical edge drop-off often results in overcorrection, leading to a head-on collision, rollover, or a run-off-road collision on the far side of the road. Pavement edge drop-offs are problematic on roads where the hard ...
A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
Traffic accident data are often compared between countries and between regions. These comparisons are done in numbers of casualties, but also in relation to the number of inhabitants (a measure of national health risk), the number of vehicle kilometres driven (a measure of the transport risk) as well as the number of cars in a country, etc.