Overturn Countermeasures for Vehicles

Download or read book Overturn Countermeasures for Vehicles written by Melvin L Myers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the century-long emergence and battle to protect drivers and occupants of off-road and on-road vehicles from crush-related injuries from rollovers. Deaths and serious injuries have been associated with vehicle overturns that involve tractors, other motorized machinery, automobiles, and small vehicles. It took more than a century to attend to much of this epidemic of death and disabling injury that resulted from these overturns. This book argues that a key factor in this response was epidemiology that reported rollover-related deaths and engineering revisionism that moved responses from “blame the victim” to rollbars to prevent the deaths.