SIDE COLLISION TESTING METHOD AND SIDE COLLISION TESTING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a side collision testing method for a vehicle which can execute the side collision testing method for a full vehicle without requiring a wide area and a small-sized and inexpensive side collision testing device for the method.SOLUTION: A collision carriage 2 is accelerated by an accelerator 1 so as to collide toward the side surface of a test vehicle 3 placed in the front of a rigid body wall 4. After the collision carriage 2 collides against the test vehicle 3, the advance of the collision carriage 2 is rapidly stopped by an energy adsorption device 13 provided between the collision carriage 2 and the accelerator 1, and the collision carriage 2 is prevented from colliding again against the test vehicle 3 stopped at the rigid body wall 4. Through shaft collapsing of a metal pipe, the energy absorption device 13 for absorbing the energy can be used.