TY  - CONF
A1  - Wisch, Marcus
A1  - Lerner, Markus
A1  - Vukovic, Elvir
A1  - Hynd, David
A1  - Fiorentino, Anita
A1  - Fornells, Alba
T1  - Injury patterns of older car occupants, older pedestrians or cyclists in road traffic crashes with passenger cars in Europe - results from SENIORS
N2  - Europe has benefited from a decreasing number of road traffic fatalities. However, the proportion of older road users increases steadily. In an ageing society, the SENIORS project aims to improve the safe mobility of older road users by determining appropriate requirements towards passive vehicle safety systems. Therefore, the characteristics of road traffic crashes involving the elderly people need to be understood. This paper focuses on car occupants and pedestrians or cyclists in crashes with modern passenger cars. Ten crash databases and four hospital statistics from Europe have been analysed to answer the questions on which body regions are most frequently and severely injured in the elderly, and specific injuries sustained by always comparing older (65 years and above) with mid‐aged road users (25‐64 years). It was found that the body region thorax is of particularly high importance for the older car occupant with injury severities of AIS2 or AIS3+, where as the lower extremities, head and the thorax need to be considered for older pedestrians and cyclists. Further, injury risk functions were provided. The hospital data analysis showed less difference between the age groups. The linkage between crash and hospital data could only be made on a general level as their inclusion criteria were quite different.
KW  - Alte Leute
KW  - Analyse (math)
KW  - Fußgänger
KW  - Insasse
KW  - Radfahrer
KW  - Schweregrad (Unfall, Verletzung)
KW  - Statistik
KW  - Tödlicher Unfall
KW  - Unfall
KW  - Verletzung
KW  - Accident
KW  - Analysis (math)
KW  - Cyclist
KW  - Fatality
KW  - Injury
KW  - Old people
KW  - Pedestrian
KW  - Severity (accid, injury)
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Vehicle occupant
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1982
N1  - Außerdem beteiligt: Transport Research Laboratory; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; IDIADA.
Volltext: http://www.ircobi.org/wordpress/downloads/irc17/pdf-files/17.pdf
ER  -