APPROPRIATE FRONTAL BARRIER TESTS FOR RESTRAINED OCCUPANTS

Frontal impact damage and restrained front seat occupant injuries investigated in a sample of 1872 frontal crashes from The Midlands, England. Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) equal to or greater than 2 torso injury from the seat belt alone increased in frequency with increasing overlap and was most frequent under 50 km/h. In crash severities of 35 to 52 km/h, only oblique and small overlap deformations caused thigh injury of AIS equal to or greater than 2 and serious head injury was most frequent with oblique deformation. The usefulness of an asymmetrical barrier, and a deformable barrier was noted. The usefulness of an asymmetrical barrier, and a deformable barrier were noted. At higher crash severities AIS equal to or greater than 3 injuries were common with full overlap rectangular deformation but with full overlap of the front face high levels of intrusion were more frequently related to asymmentric loading of passenger compartment.(A) For the covering abstract of the conference see TRIS 00663162.

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• Authors:
  • HILL, J R
  • FRAMPTON, R J
  • MacKay, M
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference
  • Location: San Antonio, Texas
  • Date: 1993-11-4 to 1993-11-6
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 287-302
• Serial:
  • Publication of: ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
  • Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
  • ISSN: 0892-6484

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Conferences; Crash severity; Crash tests; Design; Guardrails; Head; Injuries; Injury severity; Manual safety belts; Thorax
• Uncontrolled Terms: Use
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00663181
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 719
• Files: HSL, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 24 2000 12:00AM