“How Should We Think About What Happens in Road Accidents? --- A Suggestion”

The booklet can be downloaded for free from here: Booklet
The current version is dated 1 April 2026.

You may also be interested in “Road Safety Theory” available at: RoadSafetyTheory.com

You may also be interested in “Concise Theory of Road Safety” available at: RoadSafetyTheory.com/ctrs

You may also be interested in a companion book available at: BluntInjuryandDamage.com

About the Booklet

This booklet suggests a package of ideas. Some ideas are general, while others are specific. Together, they are intended to help in thinking about road accidents and road safety. It is hoped that better thinking will lead to quicker progress.

There are four short chapters.
1. Introduction
2. Collision with something ahead: A model, and its consequences for impact speed
3. Stage 1: Before the obstacle appears
4. Discussion

And there are appendices as follows.
5. Appendix 1. From the 1960's: The limited usefulness of the idea of causes of road accidents
6. Appendix 2. Equations of motion with constant acceleration
7. Appendix 3. The importance of speed: Empirical data
8. Appendix 4. Countermeasures of a psychological or behavioural nature
9. Appendix 5. Collisions with a plainly-visible obstacle
10. Appendix 6. Movement of cars and their occupants during a crash
11. Appendix 7. Physical descriptions of human impact --- Effects of speed (and other variables) on HIC (and other variables)

Chapters 2-3 and appendices 6-7 taken together describe a common type of road accident from its inception to the injury of a person. Probably everything here is straightforward in general terms, and could be taught at university, or even school.

Contact the Author

To contact the author fill in this form