Protection of car occupants in frontal impacts with heavy lorries: Frontal structures

A review, mainly of head-on impacts between lorries and motor cars, is given. This type of collision results in a greater number of fatalities than is caused by cars colliding into the rear of a lorry. It is maintained that to protect car occupants more fully than at present, it is necessary to modify current lorry frontal structural design and some suggestions pertinent to this are given.