frontal impact
Direct forward collision
Frontal impact is a collision where the front of a vehicle strikes another object—another vehicle, a barrier, or a pedestrian.
The term appears most often in crash testing and automotive safety contexts: The car earned high marks for frontal impact protection.
A frontal impact differs from side or rear impacts in how forces distribute through the vehicle's structure.
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- head-on collisionDirect front-to-front impact
- crashSudden violent impact
- head-onDirectly facing forward
- crash testControlled impact experiment
windshield · airbag · crumple · crumple zone · smash · whiplash · seat belt · bumper · shatter · hood · dashboard · jolt · force · momentum · deceleration · split second · wreck · trauma
frontal impactrear impact
Crash into backside
rear-end collision · side impact · side collision · T-bone collision · side-swipe
front, fronts, fronted, fronting, frontier, frontiers, affront, affronts, affronted