INITIAL CONCLUSIONS OF AN INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE ON CHILD RESTRAINING SYSTEMS

This paper describes the work already performed by an international task force on child restraining systems. The paper also presents the task force's on going programme. Eighteen experts from 13 teams and 7 countries are cooperating: (1) to gather together and analyze the maximum number of accident cases in which restrained children are involved; and (2) to select the most useful cases for experimental reconstructions. These will be used: (a) to check and quantify certain mechanisms; and (b) to increase knowledge of child tolerance to impact through the linkage of recorded parameters with the injuries or lack thereof in real life accidents. Five conclusions were presented concerning: (i) the risk of neck injury for children under two years of age; (ii) the discrepancies between the results in certification testing and evaluation testing in a real car environment; (iii) the use of a lap-only belt when no other child restraint is available in a car; (iv) the shield and table- shield child restraint systems; and (v) a well-designed booster which is a very effective child restraint system used only as a complement to a three- point belt. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 864606.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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• Authors:
  • Tarriere, C
  • Trosseille, Xavier
  • CARLSSON, G
• Conference:
  • THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES, NOVEMBER 4-7, 1991, PARIS, FRANCE. VOLUME I
• Publication Date: 1993-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 385-391

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Children; Conferences; Injuries; Manual safety belts; Passive restraint systems; Prevention; Tolerance (Physiology); Vertebrae
• Uncontrolled Terms: Use
• ITRD Terms: 2040: Cervical vertebrae; 1758: Child; 8525: Conference; 2051: Human tolerance; 2163: Injury; 1466: Passive safety system; 9149: Prevention; 1476: Safety belt; 9084: Use
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00664945
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 9 1994 12:00AM