1 to hit esp. the back of a vehicle from behind:
A truck rear-ended a car stopped in traffic on the expressway.
Experience elsewhere has shown a great reduction in the number of rear-end collisions by the use of these devices and that is of great importance.
We shall also require the fitment of rear under-run protection to reduce the severity of accidents involving rear-end collisions.
About one-third of all accidents are rear-end shunts, which was exactly what happened in my particular case.
I had the unfortunate experience a few weeks ago of travelling on one of the motorways and seeing one of the pile-ups from a rear-end collision.
Another passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision.
Cars 3454 and 3478 had been involved in a high-speed, rear-end collision.
During a rear-end collision, the presence of an effective head restraint behind the occupants head can limit the differential movement of the head and torso.
Early studies involving taxicabs and other fleet vehicles found that a third, high-level stop lamp reduced rear-end collisions by about 50%.
