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A vehicle may roll over when hitting a large obstacle with one of its wheels or when maneuvering over uneven terrain. A trailer jackknife can push the towing vehicle into a rollover scenario if the vehicle is subject to a tripped scenario (soft ground or a curb). Strong winds may cause high-sided vehicles such as trucks, buses and vans to be ...
Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: A Mercury Tracer that was damaged by colliding with a white-tailed deer in Wisconsin. Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object. These include head-on collisions and run-off-road ...
A rollover protection structure or rollover protection system (ROPS) (/ roʊps / or / ˌɑːroʊpiˈɛs /) is a system or structure intended to protect equipment operators and motorists from injuries caused by vehicle overturns or rollovers. Like rollcages and rollbars in cars and trucks, cabs, frames or rollbars on agricultural and ...
A Marine has been killed in a Humvee vehicle rollover during a training exercise at a combat center in California, military officials say. The unidentified Marine was assigned to a ‘Tactical ...
Vehicle rollovers are one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. military; in fact, CNN reported in 2019 that more U.S. military personnel die each year from training accidents than from combat.
A vehicle rollover crash blocks I-85 South near the Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road exit on Sept. 12, 2024. (Georgia Department of Transportation) SUWANEE, Ga. - A vehicle rollover accident on ...
Pole-impact tests: A difficult test which places a large amount of force on a small proportion on the side of the vehicle. Roll-over tests: which tests a car's ability (specifically the pillars holding the roof) to support itself in a dynamic impact. More recently, dynamic rollover tests have been proposed in lieu of static crush testing (video ...
An active rollover protection (ARP), is a system that recognizes impending rollover and selectively applies brakes to resist. [1] ARP builds on electronic stability control and its three chassis control systems already on the vehicle – anti-lock braking system, traction control and yaw control. ARP adds another function: detection of an ...