PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION

Based upon the figures that over half the people killed on European roads are not in motor vehicles pedestrian accidentology is given, as is information on experimental collisions. A synthesis yields: For a given speed the height of the bumper, the shape, the height and rigidity of the front section of the vehicle, and the length of the hood, command the overall kinematics of the pedestrian. Proposed objectives for improved vehicles are accompanied with their respective solutions. (MW)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 5th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles.
• Corporate Authors:

  Peugeot-Renault Association

  Paris,   France 
• Authors:
  • Torriere, C
  • Stcherbatcheff, G
  • Duclos, P
  • Fayon, A
• Conference:
  • Presented at the 5th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles.
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 508-510

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bumpers; Kinematics; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Vehicle design; Vehicle front end
• Old TRIS Terms: Pedestrian protection
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00132176
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-016 591
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 23 1977 12:00AM