[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 208 (Friday, October 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54326-54327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-27054]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Announcing the Seventh Quarterly Meeting of the Crash Injury 
Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Meeting announcement.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Seventh Quarterly Meeting of members 
of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network. CIREN is a 
collaborative effort to conduct research on crashes and injuries at 
nine Level 1 Trauma Centers linked by a computer network. Researchers 
can review data and share expertise, which could lead to a better 
understanding of crash injury mechanisms and the design of safer 
vehicles.

DATE AND TIME: The meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 
Thursday, December 6, 2001.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation headquarters, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Room 2230, 
Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CIREN System has been established and 
crash cases have been entered into the database by each Center. CIREN 
cases may be viewed from the NHTSA/CIREN Web site at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/include/bio_and_trauma/ciren-final.htm. NHTSA has 
held three Annual Conferences where CIREN research results were 
presented. Further information about the three previous CIREN 
conferences is also available through the NHTSA Web site. NHTSA held 
the first quarterly meeting on May 5, 2000, with a topic of lower 
extremity injuries in motor vehicle crashes; the second quarterly 
meeting on July 21, 2000, with a topic of side impact crashes; the 
third quarterly meeting on November 30, 2000, with a topic of thoracic 
injuries in crashes; the fourth quarterly meeting on March 16, 2001, 
with a topic of offset frontal collisions; the fifth quarterly meeting 
on June 21, 2001, on CIREN outreach efforts; and the sixth quarterly 
meeting (held in Ann Arbor, Michigan) with a topic of injuries 
involving sport utility vehicles. Presentations from these meetings are 
available through the NHTSA Web site.
    NHTSA plans to continue holding quarterly meetings on a regular 
basis to disseminate CIREN information to interested parties. This is 
the seventh such meeting. The topic for this meeting is Age-Related 
Injuries. Subsequent

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meetings have tentatively been scheduled for April 2002 and August 
2002. These quarterly meetings are in lieu of an annual CIREN 
conference.
    Please be aware that this is a closed building. Attendees to this 
meeting must present photo identification, pass through the xray and 
magnetometer, and be escorted to the meeting room so please allow 
sufficient time to complete this process.
    Should it be necessary to cancel the meeting due to inclement 
weather or to any other emergencies, a decision to cancel will be made 
as soon as possible and posted immediately on NHTSA's Web site http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/announce/meetings/. If you do not have access 
to the Web site, you may call the contact listed below and leave your 
telephone or fax number. You will be called only if the meeting is 
postponed or canceled.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. Donna Stemski, Office of Human-
Centered Research, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 6220, Washington, DC 
20590, telephone: (202) 366-5662.

    Issued on: October 19, 2001.
Raymond P. Owings,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-27054 Filed 10-25-01; 8:45 am]
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