The analysis on the human-vehicle-road characteristics of vehicle rear-end impact accidents

Abstract

Through the analysis on 120 rear-end vehicle impact accidents of Beijing in 2004, the basic characteristics of this kind of accident are obtained, including the actual rules of occurring time, vehicles types and speed, drivers' ages and origins, road types and so on. The results show: car to heavy truck and truck to truck, the main two types, in most of which the front vehicles park or run at a lower speed, and rear vehicles drive tiredly at a high speed, should be investigated and prevented especially. The statistic results are analyzed, then the methods against drive tiredness and rear-end impact are presented by discussing the happening reasons of such accidents in the point of view of human-vehicle-road system.