Citation

Baker CJ. J. Wind. Eng. Ind. Aerodyn. 1986; 22(1): 69-85.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0167-6105(86)90012-7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In periods of high wind three types of wind-induced vehicle accidents can be expected to occur: 1.
(1) overtuning accidents,
2.
(2) sideslip accidents,
3.
(3) rotation accidents,


This paper sets out a general analysis which throws some light on these types of accident and their interrelation. Simplifying assumptions have to be made for the problem to be tractable and these are discussed in some detail. For the Leyland Atlantean bus it is shown that overturning accidents are much more likely to occur than the other types of accident.