FACTORS LEADING TO CRASH FATALITIES TO CHILDREN IN CHILD RESTRAINTS
Efforts to improve child restraint designs would benefit from more detailed information on how child occupants are dying in crashes. Detailed reports involving 92 children (ages 5 and younger) in child restraints who died in crashes in 2000 were obtained from police departments. Cases were reviewed to obtain basic crash information and determine the factor most responsible for the fatality. Half of the crashes were considered unsurvivable for the child, and 12% of fatalities were judged to result from gross misuse of the child restraint. Forty percent of all of the crashes were side impacts, and in all fatal side impact crashes there was intrusion at the child's seating position.
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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:
- Sherwood, C P
- Ferguson, S A
- Crandall, J R
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Conference:
- Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine 47th Annual Conference
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Date: 2003-9-22 to 2003-9-24
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 343-359
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Serial:
- Publication of: ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
- Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
- ISSN: 0892-6484
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Child restraint systems; Children; Design; Fatalities; Vehicle safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Vehicle intrusion
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I84: Personal Injuries; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00964922
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Oct 22 2003 12:00AM