Trends in the Static Stability Factor of Passenger Cars, Light Trucks, and Vans

Download or read book Trends in the Static Stability Factor of Passenger Cars, Light Trucks, and Vans written by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rollover crashes kill more than 10,000 occupants of passenger vehicles each year. As part of its mission to reduce fatalities and injuries, since model year 2001 NHTSA has included rollover information as part of its NCAP ratings. One of the primary means of assessing rollover risk is the static stability factor (SSF), a measurement of a vehicle's resistance to rollover. The higher the SSF, the lower the rollover risk. This report tracks the trend in SSF over time, looking in particular at changes in various passenger vehicle types. Data are presented for overall fleet average SSFs by vehicle type over a number of model years.