[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 220 (Friday, November 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 64678]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28482]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Announcing the Twelfth 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 Twelfth 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 
Friday, December 5, 2003.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Children's Harbor Building, 
1600 6th Avenue South (corner of 6th Avenue South and 16th Street) in 
Birmingham, Alabama. This meeting will be hosted by the Mercedes Benz 
CIREN Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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 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, 
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, 
the ninth quarterly meeting on August 22, 2002 at Harborview Injury 
Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington with 
presentations highlighting the various research specialties of the 
Centers; the tenth Quarterly meeting on December 5, 2002, with a topic 
of Occult Injuries; and the eleventh Quarterly Meeting on April 3, 2003 
with papers on the injuries sustained in crashes where vehicles are 
mis-matched in terms of size or weight. 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 twelfth such meeting. The CIREN Centers will be presenting papers 
on a variety of research topics.
    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:

Mark Scarboro, Office of Advanced Safety Research, 400 Seventh Street, 
SW., Room 6220, Washington, DC 20590, Telephone: (202) 366-5932.
     or
Holly Waller, Mercedes-Benz CIREN Center, Center for Injury Sciences, 
1922 7th Avenue South--KB 110, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, Telephone 
(205)975-3034.

    Issued on: November 6, 2003.
Raymond P. Owings,
Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Analysis, National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-28482 Filed 11-13-03; 8:45 am]
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