Air Bag Related Injuries in NHTSA's Crash Databases

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been monitoring and gathering information on air bag related injuries and fatalities in its data collection programs since air bags were introduced. As frontal air bag technology has progressed from barrier certified (a.k.a. first generation) to sled certified (a.k.a redesigned) and to advanced certified air bag systems, there has been a drastic reduction in the number of injuries and fatalities attributed to these air bags. More recently developed air bags designed to protect occupants in side impacts and rollovers also do not appear to pose a serious threat. The purpose of this paper is to describe the evolution of air bag injuries in all types of air bags collected in NHTSA’s in-depth investigation and crash report based programs. Additionally, the paper discusses future plans for collection of air bag and injury information as NHTSA’s data collection programs are redesigned in the Data Modernization Project.

• Record URL:
  http://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/24/isv7/main.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Chidester, Augustus “Chip”
  • Mynatt, Mark
• Conference:
  • 24th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)
  • Location: Gothenburg , Sweden
  • Date: 2015-6-8 to 2015-6-11
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 24th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Traffic Safety Through Integrated Technologies

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Crash data; Data collection; Databases; Injuries
• Identifier Terms: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I80: Accident Studies; I84: Personal Injuries; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01573911
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-0259
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 27 2015 11:25AM