[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13822-13823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-7228]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Announcing the Eighth 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 Eighth 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 ten 
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.

DATES AND TIMES: The meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 
Thursday, April 25, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation headquarters, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 2230, 
Washington, D.C. 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 website. 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; the sixth quarterly meeting (held in 
Ann Arbor, Michigan) with a topic of injuries involving sport utility 
vehicles, and the seventh quarterly meeting on December 6, 2001, with a 
topic of Age Related Injuries (Elderly and Children). Presentations 
from these meetings are available through the NHTSA website.
    NHTSA plans to continue holding quarterly meetings on a regular 
basis to disseminate CIREN information to interested parties. This is 
the eighth such meeting. The topic for this meeting is Brain and 
Traumatic Head Injuries. Subsequent meetings have tentatively been 
scheduled for August 2002 and December 2002. These 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.


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    Issued on: March 21, 2002.
Raymond P. Owings,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-7228 Filed 3-25-02; 8:45 am]
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