NECK INJURY CRITERIA FOR CHILDREN FROM REAL CRASH RECONSTRUCTIONS

In view of the lack of data concerning child protection, an accidentological and experimental work was engaged. The goal of this international research involving experts from seven countries was two-fold: On the one hand to establish protection principles, gathering and analysing real crashes involving restrained children, and on the other hand, to identify and to quantify injury mechanisms in order to increase knowledge on child tolerances. To realize this second part, real crash reconstructions were performed, in order to correlate observed injuries with recorded parameters on dummies. This paper mainly presents four real crashes with the corresponding reconstructions. A special analysis of injury mechanisms in relation with their respective pertinent parameters is then proposed. (A) For the covering abstract of the compendium see IRRD 880073.

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  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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• Authors:
  • Trosseille, Xavier
  • Tarriere, C
• Publication Date: 1993-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 209-18
• Serial:
  • SAE PUBLICATION SP-986. CHILD OCCUPANT PROTECTION (SAE TECHNICAL PAPER 933103)
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anthropometry; Children; Crash reconstruction; Crash severity; Dummies; Injuries; Injury severity; Manual safety belts; Passive restraint systems; Spinal column; Vertebrae
• Geographic Terms: France
• ITRD Terms: 1618: Anthropometric dummy; 2040: Cervical vertebrae; 1758: Child; 8036: France; 2163: Injury; 1466: Passive safety system; 1621: Reconstruction (accid); 1476: Safety belt; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 2041: Spinal column
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00725324
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• ISBN: 1-56091-422-X
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 26 1996 12:00AM