Modeling of the deformational force and absorbed energy plays a very important role in different fields of vehicle engineering. The usually applied FEM based methods give good approximations, but they have extremely large computational complexity. On the other hand there exist simple force models, but they not approximate well in details the real data. The aim of this paper is to introduce a force model for vehicle deformation, which is able to describe the real process and have acceptable complexity. ©2009IEEE.