Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

Expand NHTSA’s, and the public’s, understanding of human injury causation in motor vehicle crashes by conducting indepth investigations and performing multi-disciplinary reviews of case subjects’ outcomes. The data generated in these studies will provide the impact biomechanics and automobile safety community with highly-detailed field-based data that can support trend analysis and research related to advanced dummies and models, injury criteria, restraint performance, and vehicle design. Results of work conducted under this contract will facilitate the reduction of motor vehicle crash-related injuries and fatalities. The CIREN program will be comprised of one or more Medical Centers and one or more Engineering Centers, each with distinct roles.