[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69808-69809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-29229]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Announcing the Tenth 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 Tenth 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.

DATE AND TIME: The meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 
Thursday, December 5, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Department of Transportation 
Headquarters, (Nassif Building), 400 Seventh Street, SW, 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/departments/nrd-50/ciren/CIREN.html. NHTSA has held 
three Annual Conferences where CIREN research results were presented. 
Further information about the three previous

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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; the sixth quarterly 
meeting (held in Ann Arbor, Michigan) with a topic of injuries 
involving sport utility vehicles, the seventh quarterly meeting on 
December 6, 2001, with a topic of Age Related Injuries (Elderly and 
Children), the eighth quarterly meeting on April 25, 2002, with a topic 
of Head and Traumatic Brain Injuries, and the ninth quarterly meeting 
on August 22, 2002 at Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center 
in Seattle, Washington with presentations highlighting the various 
research specialities of the Centers. 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 tenth such meeting. The ten CIREN Centers will be presenting papers 
on the research specialty for their particular center regarding crash 
injury mechanisms. The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 
3, 2003.
    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: Catherine McCullough, Office of 
Advanced Safety Research, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 6220, 
Washington, DC 20590, telephone: (202) 366-4734.

    Issued on: November 8, 2002.
Raymond P. Owings,
Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Analysis, National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-29229 Filed 11-18-02; 8:45 am]
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