The German Motor Insurers have continued their accident research programme with a new representative large—scale analysis "Vehicle Safety 90", which includes a data bank of 15,000 car—to-car crashes and over 1,000 single-car accidents.
The distribution of collision types of this representative accident material with personal injuries is analysed. The ranking of collision types in this new accident material based on the traffic environment of the year 1990 is demonstrated with respect to occurrence and intensity of crashes, combined with the frequency and severity of injuries.
An analysis is carried out to ascertain whether collision characteristics are influenced by different mass categories of cars. The differences which has been observed might be due to other risk exposures by the driver, utilisation criteria or safety characteristics.