Powered Two-Wheeler Accidents in Germany with Severe Injury Outcome - Accident Scenarios, Injury - Sources and Potential Countermeasures
Powered two‐wheeler riders is a group for who fatalities are not decreasing at the same rate as for other road users. It is also a group that is likely to increase in the future due to traffic congestion. To develop countermeasures to protect powered two‐wheeler drivers it is necessary to understand accident events in detail, the injuries and their sources. The German database GIDAS was queried for powered two‐wheeler crashes where the driver was severely injured (AIS3+), resulting in 332 cases, where the injuries, pre‐crash scenarios and injury sources were studied in detail. The most common pre‐crash scenarios were found to be powered two‐wheelers losing control, or that another vehicle did not notice the powered two‐wheeler. The most common injury source for the powered two‐wheeler driver was the surrounding, with cars second. The road surface was the dominating surrounding injury source. An interesting finding was that leg injuries were over‐represented in car impacts, and thorax injuries similarly for the surrounding as injury source. Countermeasures with highest potential to mitigate or prevent severe (AIS3+) injury, include leg and chest protection for the rider, vehicle‐mounted warning or automatic emergency braking systems and vehicle‐to-powered two‐wheeler (V2X) communication.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission of the International Council on the Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI).
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Corporate Authors:
International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI)
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Authors:
- Fredriksson, Rikard
- Sui, Bo
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Conference:
- 2016 IRCOBI Conference
- Location: Malaga , Spain
- Date: 2016-9-14 to 2016-9-16
- Publication Date: 2016
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 12p
- Monograph Title: 2016 IRCOBI Conference Proceedings
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Serial:
- IRCOBI Conference Proceedings
- Publisher: International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI)
- ISSN: 2235-3151
- Serial URL: http://www.ircobi.org/proceedings.php
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash injuries; Driver support systems; Injury severity; Motorcycles; Two wheeled vehicles
- Geographic Terms: Germany
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01614035
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 25 2016 9:47AM