TY  - CONF
A1  - Lenard, James
A1  - Morris, Andrew
A1  - Barnes, Jo
A1  - Tomasch, Ernst
A1  - Nehmzow, Joachim
A1  - Otte, Dietmar
A1  - Cant, L
A1  - Haddak, Mouloud
A1  - Vallet, Gilles
A1  - Ebbinger, H.
A1  - DeVries, Y.
A1  - VanKampen, B
A1  - Paez, Javier
T1  - PENDANT: a European crash injury database
N2  - Annually within the European Union, there are over 50,000 road accident fatalities and 2 million other casualties, of which the majority are either the occupants of cars or other road users in collision with a car. The European Commission now has competency for vehicle-based injury countermeasures through the Whole Vehicle Type Approval system. As a result, the Commission has recognised that casualty reduction strategies must be based on a full understanding of the real-world need under European conditions and that the effectiveness of vehicle countermeasures must be properly evaluated. The PENDANT study commenced in January 2003 in order to explore the possibility of developing a co-ordinated set of targeted, in-depth crash data resources to support European Union vehicle and road safety policy. Three main work activity areas (Work Packages) commenced to provide these resources. This paper describes some of the outcomes of Work Package 2 (WP2, In-depth Crash Investigations and Data Analysis). In WP2, some 1,100 investigations of crashes involving injured car occupants were conducted in eight EU countries to a common protocol based on that developed in the STAIRS programme. This paper describes the purposes, methodology and results of WP2. It is expected that the results will be used as a co-ordinated system to inform European vehicle safety policy in a systematic, integrated manner. Furthermore, the results of the data analyses will be exploited further to provide new directions to develop injury countermeasures and regulations.
KW  - Auffahrunfall
KW  - Datenbank
KW  - Datenerfassung
KW  - Europa
KW  - Frontalzusammenstoß
KW  - Fußgänger
KW  - Konferenz
KW  - Schweregrad (Unfall, Verletzung)
KW  - Tödlicher Unfall
KW  - Überlappung
KW  - Überschlagen
KW  - Unfall
KW  - Accident
KW  - Conference
KW  - Data acquisition
KW  - Data bank
KW  - Europe
KW  - Fatality
KW  - Head on collision
KW  - Overlapping
KW  - Overturning (veh)
KW  - Pedestrian
KW  - Rear end collision
KW  - Severity (accid, injury)
Y1  - 2007
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/448
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-4485
N1  - Weitere beteiligte Körperschaften: Technical University of Graz; Medizinische Hochschule Hannover; INRETS; Chalmers University <Götheborg>; TNO; SWOV; INSIA-UPM <Madrid>
ER  -