CASE COMPARISON OF RESTRAINED AND NON-RESTRAINED OCCUPANTS AND RELATED INJURY PATTERNS

RESTRAINING DEVICES CONTINUE TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF LESSENING INJURIES IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISIONS. EVIDENCE FROM THE TRAUMA RESEARCH GROUPS CASE FILES ILLUSTRATES HOW INJURY IS AVOIDED OR MINIMIZED BY USE OF LAP, SHOULDER, AND DIAGONAL SEAT BELTS IN SEVERAL TYPES OF CRASHES, UNDER VARIOUS ANGLES OF IMPACT. PREVENTION OF FATAL EJECTION, THE IMPROVED CHANCES RESTRAINED DRIVER HAS OF RETAINING CONTROL OF HIS CAR, AND THE ATTENUATION OF INTERIOR COLLISION FORCES, SUCH AS RESULT IN JACKKNIFING ARE TOPICS DISCUSSED, AS WELL AS THE CONTRIBUTION OF MAJOR AUTOMOBILE DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • No 690245, 17 PP, 28 FIG, 13 TAB, 15 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • SIEGEL, A W
  • VanWagoner, W T
  • Nahum, A M
• Publication Date: 1969-1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Constraints; Crash injury research; Ejection; Fatalities; Injuries; Jackknifing; Manual safety belts; Shoulder harnesses
• Old TRIS Terms: Shoulder harness
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220807
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 26 1970 12:00AM