Characteristics on Fracture of Tibia and Fibula in Car Impacts to Pedestrians and Bicyclists – Influences of Car Bumper Height and Shaper

This paper deals with the analysis of lower leg fractures in pedestrians and bicyclists after collisions with passenger vehicles. The paper examines to what extent the shape and location of the fractures in the lower leg changed following alterations in the shape of bumpers. Traffic accidents from the German in-Depth-Accident Study (GIDAS) that were documented from 1995 to 2004 were selected for this paper. The accident documentation can be regarded as representative and constitutes a random sample with statistical weighting of the data. Altogether, 143 cases of lower leg fractures (tibia/fibula) using x-rays of pedestrians and 79 cases of bicyclists were differentiated according to new and older vehicles. The bumper shapes were divided into classical types (protruding pronouncedly, protruding integrated, and integrated rounded. Besides the injuries to the lower leg, those to thighs and feet were also used and the injury conditions involving head and truck were also included in the kinematic analysis.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)

  P.O. Box 4176
  Barrington, IL  United States  60011-4176
• Authors:
  • Otte, Dietmar
  • Haasper, Carl
• Conference:
  • 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
  • Location: Melbourne , Australia
  • Date: 2007-10-15 to 2007-10-17
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 63-79
• Monograph Title: 51st Annual Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
• Serial:
  • Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine
  • Volume: 51
  • Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
  • ISSN: 1943-2461

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle crashes; Bumpers; Crash analysis; Crashes; Kinematics; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Traffic crash victims; Traffic crashes; X rays
• Uncontrolled Terms: Tibia
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01080700
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 15 2007 10:32AM