secondary collisions

Subsequent crashes that follow an initial collision: the first impact spawns additional ones, as in rear-end chain reactions, multi-vehicle pile-ups, and a stalled or disabled vehicle being struck again. The focus is the cascading sequence of impacts itself. Unlike post_crash_care_delays (delays in EMS reaching the scene) and evacuation_egress (occupants getting out of the vehicle), this is about further vehicle-to-vehicle impacts; unlike driver_post_crash_behavior, it concerns the crash dynamics, not what the driver chooses to do.

24 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

1. Study Analyzes Crashes on the Capital Beltway · 1996 · NHTSA · archived
2. Injury Severity in Multivehicle Rear-End Crashes ↗ · 2001 · Khattak, Asad J. · indexed
3. Impact of Primary Incident Spatiotemporal Influence Thresholds on the Detection of Secondary Crashes ↗ · 2019 · Kitali, Angela E. et al. · indexed
4. Factors Influencing Multi-vehicle Collisions Following Sudden Fatal Health Problems in Drivers · 2025 · Kataoka, Hitomi et al. · archived
5. IVHS Countermeasures for Rear-End Collisions, Task 2 -- Functional Goals · 1996 · Wilson, Terry · archived
6. VEHICLE CRASHWORTHINESS AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION IN FRONTAL COLLISIONS. ENERGY DISSIPATED IN VEHICLE CRUSH: A STUDY USING THE REPEATED TEST TECHNIQUE. SAE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION, FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 2, 1990, DETROIT, MICHIGAN ↗ · 1990 · Prasad, Aloke · indexed
7. Rear Vehicle Matters: How Tailgaters Influence the Car-Following Behaviors of the Ego-Vehicle · 2025 · Liu, Yang et al. · archived
8. Detailed modeling of the train-to-train impact test : rail passenger equipment impact tests · 2007 · Stringfellow, Richard et al. · archived
9. Car rollover collision with pit corner · 2009 · Viba, Janis et al. · archived
10. Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Driving Strategy for Avoidance of Chain Collisions and Its Safety Efficiency Analysis in Autonomous Vehicles · 2022 · Muzahid, Abu Jafar Md et al. · archived
11. Locomotive Crash Energy Management: Train-to-Train Impact Test [Research Results] · 2023 · Gordon, Jeff · archived
12. Locomotive Crash Energy Management Vehicle-to-Vehicle Impact Test Results · 2020 · Llana, Patricia et al. · archived
13. Locomotive Crash Energy Management Coupling Tests Evaluation and Vehicle-to-Vehicle Test Preparation · 2019 · Llana, Patricia et al. · archived
14. Using Barrier Impact Data to Determine Speed Change in Aligned, Low-Speed, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Collisions ↗ · 1996 · Siegmund, Gunter P. et al. · indexed
15. Locomotive Crash Energy Management Coupling Tests [2015] · 2015 · Llana, Patricia · archived
16. An investigation into neck injuries in simulated frontal impacts ↗ · 2012 · Al-Shammari, Naif et al. · indexed
17. Design and Validation of an Active Headrest System with Integrated Sensing in Rear-End Crash Scenarios ↗ · 2025 · Radu, Alexandru Ionut et al. · indexed
18. External Impacts and Assessment of Electric Vehicles: Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework ↗ · 2025 · Mustaffa, Zahiraniza et al. · indexed
19. Experimental Evaluation of the Attenuation Effect of a Passive Damper on a Road Vehicle Bumper · 2014 · Agyei-Agyemang, A. et al. · archived
20. Heavy-Goods Vehicle Collisions with Steel Road Safety Barriers: Combined Influences of Position of Center of Mass and Tire-Pavement Friction ↗ · 1999 · Montella, Alfonso et al. · indexed
21. Vehicular Platooning in an Adversarial Environment ↗ · 2015 · Dadras, Soodeh et al. · indexed
22. Sequential convex programming MPC for dynamic vehicle collision avoidance ↗ · 2017 · Alrifaee, Bassam et al. · indexed
23. Nonlinear wave interactions of the Riemann problem for a two-lane traffic flow model ↗ · 2025 · Kuila, Sahadeb et al. · indexed
24. Impact damage behavior of lightweight CFRP protection suspender on railway vehicles · 2022 · Jiang, Jian et al. · archived