This study characterizes the human thoracic response to blunt impact in oblique and lateral directions. In previous studies a significant amount of data has been collected from lateral impacts conducted on human thoraces. Substantially less data has been collected from impacts that are anterior of lateral in an oblique direction. In the past, data collected from the handful of oblique impacts performed were considered to be sufficiently similar to the data from purely lateral impacts that the data were combined with the lateral results. Human response to oblique impact is of great importance in defining the biomechanical response of the human thorax in a vehicle crash where the loading is often anterior oblique in direction. Data in this study was obtained by affixing accelerometers to the rib cage and along the thoracic spine of a Post Mortem Human Subject (PMHS).1 An External Peripheral Instrument for Deformation Measurement, or chestband, was placed on the thorax at the level of impact to validate the response obtained by the accelerometers. Two impacts were conducted on each of five subjects at 2.5 m/s, with one lateral impact and one oblique impact to opposite sides of each PMHS.