frontal crash
Nose-first vehicle impact
A frontal crash is a collision where the front of a vehicle strikes another object—another vehicle, a barrier, a tree.
The term appears most often in automotive safety contexts: frontal crash tests, frontal crash ratings.
Distinguished from side-impact, rear-end, and rollover crashes.
- head-on collisionDirect front-to-front impact
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- blunt forceImpact without piercing
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
head-on · airbag · windshield · safety glass · crumple zone · crumple · wreck · smash · accident · whiplash · bumper · hood · shattered · dashboard · seatbelt · steering wheel · jolt · debris
impact direction
frontal crashrear-end collision
Crash into back
rear impact · side impact · sideswipe · T-bone collision · rollover
front, frontal, frontally, fronts, fronted, fronting, frontier, frontiers, affront