EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF PEDESTRIAN INJURY MINIMIZATION THROUGH VEHICLE DESIGN

Experimental pedestrian/vehicle impacts have been conducted using a 50th percentile adult and a 6-year-old-child dummy in an ongoing program to investigate the injury reduction potential of changes in the front end of a vehicle. Peak resultant acceleration levels for the head, chest, pelvis, and knee of each dummy are presented for vehicle fronts that include production compact and full size vehicles a potential injury mitigating concept vehicle and Calspan RSV. From these results the next vehicle concept to be investigated and evaluated is synthesized and described./HSRI/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by the International Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition, 28 Feb-4 March 1977, Detroit, Michigan.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Pritz, H B
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Adults; Chemical reduction; Crash investigation; Dummies; Injuries; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Safety vehicles; Studies; Vehicle design; Vehicle front end
• Old TRIS Terms: Minors; Reduction
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00152941
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 770096
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 1977 12:00AM