VITAL STATISTICS OF PASSENGER-CAR OCCUPANTS FOR EACH VEHICLE SEATING POSITION

DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE AGE, SEX, HEIGHT, AND WEIGHT OF PASSENGER-CAR OCCUPANTS ARE CALCULATED AS A FUNCTION OF THEIR SEAT POSITION WITHIN THE VEHICLE. THE DATA WERE EXTRACTED FROM HSRI ACCIDENT DATA FILES; CONSEQUENTLY THEY REPRESENT CONDITIONS FOUND IN ACCIDENT-INVOLVED VEHICLES ONLY. THE FINDINGS PRESENTED HERE DEMONSTRATE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN THE POPULATIONS UTILIZING THE VARIOUS SEATING POSITIONS. IT IS HOPED THAT THESE FINDINGS MAY PROVE HELPFUL IN RESTRAINT-SYSTEM DESIGN. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 4-7, 4 FIG, 2 TAB, 3 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  /Hit Lab Reports
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • GREEN, J A
• Publication Date: 1971-4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Automobiles; Constraints; Crash investigation; Crashes; Gender; Height; Position fixing; Seats; Vehicle occupants; Weight
• Old TRIS Terms: Position /locations/
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223536
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 25 1971 12:00AM