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In-depth investigation of accidents and accident reconstruction

  • The main objective of EC CASPER research project is to reduce fatalities and injuries of children travelling in cars. Accidents involving children were investigated, modelling of human being and tools for dummies were advanced, a survey for the diagnosis of child safety was carried out and demands and applications were analysed. From the many research tasks of the CASPER project, the intention of this paper is to address the following: • In-depth investigation of accidents and accident reconstruction. These will provide important points for the injury risk curve, in order to improve it. Different accident investigation teams collected data from real road accidents, involving child car passengers, in five different European countries. Then, a selection of the most appropriate cases for the injury risk curve and the purposes of the project was made for an in-depth analysis. The final stage of this analysis was to conduct an accident reconstruction to validate the results obtained. The in-depth analysis included on-scene accident investigation, creating virtual simulations of the accident/possible reconstruction, and conducting the reconstruction. In the cases of successful reconstructions, new points were introduced to the injury risk curves. Accident reconstructions of selected cases were carried out in test laboratories as the next step following in-depth road accident investigation. These cases were reconstructed using similar child restraint systems (CRS) and the same type make and model as in the real accidents. Reconstructing real cases has several limitations, such as crash angle, cars" approximation paths and crash speed. However, a few changes and applications on the testing conditions were applied to reduce the limitations and improved the representations of the real accidents. After conducting the reconstructions, a comparison between the deformations of the cars on the real accident and the vehicles from the reconstructions was made. Additionally, a correlation between the data captured from the dummies and the injury data from the real accident was sought. This finalises an in-depth analysis of the accident, which will provide new relevant points to the injury risk curve. The CASPER project conducted a large research programme on child safety. On technical points, a promising research area is the developing injury risk curves as a result of in-depth accident investigations and reconstructions. This abstract was written whilst the project was not yet finished and final results are not yet known, but they will be available by the time of the conference. All the works and findings will not necessarily be integrated in the industrial versions of evaluation tools as the CASPER project is a research program.

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Author:Alejandro Longton, Philippe Lesire, Heiko Johannsen, Anita Fiorentino, Philippe Beillas, Alan Kirk, Britta SchnottaleORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-6342
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/09/05
Year of first publication:2013
Contributing corporation:Applus IDIADA
Release Date:2013/09/05
Tag:Anfahrversuch; Datenbank; Deutschland; Insasse; Kind; Konferenz; Simulation; Unfallrekonstruktion; Untersuchung am Unfallort; Verletzung
Child; Conference; Database; Germany; Impact test (veh); Injury; On the spot accident investigation; Reconstruction (accid); Simulation; Vehicle occupant
Comment:
Weiterhin beteiligt: Laboratory of Accidentology, Biomechanics and Human Behavior, Nanterre; Technische Universität Berlin; Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A; Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux; Transport Safety Research Centre, Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University
Source:5th International conference on EASR 2012
Institutes:Abteilung Fahrzeugtechnik / Abteilung Fahrzeugtechnik
Sonstige / Sonstige
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
collections:BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 81 Unfallstatistik
BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 84 Personenschäden
BASt-Beiträge / Tagungen / International Conference on ESAR / 5th International Conference on ESAR

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