INTACT - National Initiative for Enhanced Crash Investigations
Conference poster, 2010

A national initiative from the vehicle manufacturers, safety system suppliers, the road administration and universities in Sweden took off in 2007. The aim was to develop a national investigation network and a methodology focusing on all phases of a crash (pre-crash, in-crash and post-crash) as well as all parts of the road transport system (road user, vehicle and road environment). The initiative is formally run as a project with the acronym INTACT (Investigation Network and Accident Collection Techniques). It was a three year pilot with the aim to develop methodologies for an extended national crash investigation activity. During the first year the INTACT partners agreed on the aim for the investigation and methods for retrieving the data were developed. During the second and third year the methodology was tested in real-world investigations and further refinement was made. The paper describes the methodology developed to obtain high qualitative in-depth road crash data.

road safety

Accident investigation

In-depth data

Author

Helen Fagerlind

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

Jan Martinsson

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

Li Hagström

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

4:th International Conference ESAR - Expert Symposium on Accident Research, Hannover, Germany

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Vehicle Engineering

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10/6/2017