The current study evaluates the influence of impact speed, pedestrian stature, and vehicle geometry on the likelihood and location of head-vehicle contact in a frontal pedestrian crash. Information on 408 pedestrian crashes in which the striking vehicle was either a car, pick-up truck, or an SUV was obtained from the Pedestrian Crash Data Study (PCDS), German In-Depth Accident Study (GIDAS), and Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) databases. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the importance of factors that determine the likelihood of head contact and sliding up the hood prior to head contact. Multiple linear regression was used to study the relative influence of impact speed, pedestrian stature, bumper height, hood height, and hood length on the wrap around distance (WAD) to head contact and to evaluate whether it is possible to predict this distance from these five parameters. As expected, the likelihood of head-vehicle contact increased with increasing impact speed and pedestrian to hood height ratio. The likelihood of sliding up the hood prior to head contact increased with increasing impact speed and was significantly higher in cases for which the pedestrian stature to hood height ratio was greater than two than in cases in which it was less than two. Of the variables considered, stature was the single most important predictor of WAD to head contact explaining 24% of the variation alone. Other significant predictors included the impact speed, whether the pedestrian was taller than twice the hood height, and hood length, which, together with pedestrian stature, explained a total of 40% of the variation. The low explanatory effect of this model suggests that additional factors, such as the presence or absence of pre-impact braking and pedestrian stance and orientation, also affect the WAD to head contact.