RESULTS OF A STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL ACCIDENTS BY A TEAM OF TECHNICIANS AND DOCTORS

ERGEBNISSE EINER UNTERSUCHUNG VON EINZELUNFAELLEN IM TEAM VON TECHNIKERN UND MEDIZINERN

The author reports on the possibilities and limits of accident simulation, particularly crash tests with anthropometric dummies. It is not possible to establish the limits of loading for tissues and internal organs. There are also restrictions in this respect with cadaver tests. The causes and consequences of injuries sustained in 395 accidents which resulted in 101 dead and 234 injured are reported, together with the distribution of the accidents over time and the relation between interior damage and injury. It is demonstrated that measured values are only relative and do not provide information on the types of injury to be expected in given accidents. They do however provide a framework for a car manufacturers' safety programme and lead the legislators to demand increased minimum safety standards inside vehicles. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Institute of Road Research, Germany

  Bruhlerstrasse 1, Postfach 510530
  D-5000 Cologne 51,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Lutz, F U
• Publication Date: 1979

Language

• German

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 319-332
• Serial:
  • Unfall-und Sicherheitsforschung Strassenverkehr
  • Issue Number: 21
  • Publisher: Federal Institute of Road Research, Germany

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anthropometry; Cadavers; Crash reconstruction; Crash tests; Crashes; Diseases and medical conditions; Distributions (Statistics); Dummies; Fatalities; Impact sleds; Injuries; Injury severity; Loss and damage; Measurement; Passive restraint systems; Simulation; Time; Tolerance (Physiology); Traffic crashes; Vehicle compartments; Vehicle design; Vehicle interiors; Vehicle safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Severity
• Old TRIS Terms: Vehicular safety
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1618: Anthropometric dummy; 2093: Cadaver; 1614: Damage; 6572: Distribution (stat); 1602: Fatality; 2051: Human tolerance; 1629: Impact sled; 1648: Impact test (crash); 2163: Injury; 1377: Interior (veh); 6136: Measurement; 1466: Passive safety system; 1621: Reconstruction (accid); 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 5414: Time
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I80: Accident Studies; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00315205
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 1980 12:00AM