side impact
T-bone car accident
Side impact refers to a collision striking the side of a vehicle rather than the front or rear.
Because car doors offer less protection than front and rear crumple zones, side impacts pose particular danger to occupants: side impact airbags, side impact crash test ratings.
The term appears almost exclusively in automotive safety contexts.
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- crashSudden violent impact
- crash testControlled impact experiment
- doorHinged room barrier
- door panelFramed section of door
airbag · crumple · crumple zone · barrier · passenger · driver · safety · test · dummy · rating · protection · vehicle · car accident · accident · force · damage · injury · whiplash
collision angle/direction
side impacthead-on collision
Direct front-to-front impact
frontal impact · head-on crash · rear-end collision · rear impact · rollover
side, impact, sides, sided, siding, sideway, sideways, sideward, alongside