DOT - 49 CFR PART 571 214
Standard No. 214; Side impact protection
Organization: | DOT |
Publication Date: | 1 October 2017 |
Status: | active |
Page Count: | 28 |
scope:
This standard specifies performance requirements for protection of occupants in side impacts.
Purpose. The purpose of this standard is to reduce the risk of serious and fatal injury to occupants of passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks and buses in side impacts by specifying strength requirements for side doors, limiting the forces, deflections and accelerations measured on anthropomorphic dummies in test crashes, and by other means.
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