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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.
Sedan type vehicles in which adult rear seat passengers were present and which were involved in frontal collisions were investigated, and the influence of unbelted rear seat passengers on the injuries of front seat occupants was studied. Unbelted rear seat passengers move forward during impact. It was observed that there were not only cases in which front seat occupants sustained injuries caused by direct contact with rear seat passengers, but also cases where front seat occupants received severe injuries due to additional force from rear seat passengers, either impacting directly or indirectly as a result of deformation of the front seat. Severe injuries of front seat occupants were observed in the latter cases. This research validates the importance of seat-belt use for rear seat passengers, not only to protect themselves but also to mitigate injuries of front seat occupants.
The number of injuries sustained by car occupants involving the head, thorax, spine, pelvis and the upper limbs have been reduced significantly during recent years. This is probably due to better safety features in the cars, especially the availability and usage of safety belts, airbags etc. Therefore one can notice clinically a relative increase in survivors of severe frontal crashes, but many of them have injuries to the lower extremities. To verify this, we analyzed the foot and ankle injuries of front seat passengers.
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 midâ€aged road users (25â€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.
Die schnell fortschreitende Entwicklung der Sensortechnologie und der Aktuatorik bietet Ansätze für neuartige Rückhaltesysteme und kann somit den Schutz des Insassen bei Unfällen erheblich verbessern. Kommende Generationen adaptiver Rückhaltesysteme werden eine dosierte Aktivierung der Schutzwirkung (z.B. mehrstufige Airbags oder Gurtstraffer) abhängig von der Unfallschwere und der Fahrzeugbesetzung erlauben. Um solche Systeme voll auszunutzen, werden Sensoren entwickelt, die die Schwere eines Unfalls in weitaus höherer Auflösung als bisher erkennen können und somit das Einleiten adaptiver Maßnahmen ermöglichen. Diese Systeme werden unter dem Begriff der intelligenten oder adaptiven Rückhaltesysteme zusammengefasst. Ziel des Projektes "Intelligente Rückhaltesysteme" ist es, die möglichen Verbesserungen der passiven Sicherheit durch die neuen Technologien zu analysieren und darzustellen. Außerdem sind die Auswirkungen auf die gesetzlichen Regelungen zu untersuchen, um so mögliche zusätzliche Schutzpotentiale schnell umzusetzen und eventuelle Risiken zu vermeiden. In einer umfangreichen Literaturrecherche wurde zum einen das Unfallgeschehen analysiert. Ergänzend wurden die Schwerpunkte des Pkw-Unfallgeschehens durch eine Auswertung von Unfalldaten der GIDAS untersucht und dargestellt. Zum anderen wurde der Stand der Technik heutiger und zukünftiger Rückhaltesysteme aufgearbeitet und systematisiert. Dabei wurden die bestehenden und zukünftigen Systeme in ihrer Funktionsweise analysiert und durch ein 3-Ebenen-Modell charakterisiert. Mit Hilfe des Abgleichs der Schwerpunkte des realen Unfallgeschehens mit den RHS und der bestehenden Gesetzgebung wurden Potenziale und Wirkbereiche möglicher Maßnahmen skizziert. Auf der Basis einer Expertenbefragung konnten der Entwicklungsstand der iRHS aufgezeigt und Vorschläge zur Erweiterung der bestehenden Sicherheitsgesetzgebung gemacht werden.
The increase in light duty trucks (LDT) on the road in the US is a safety concern because of their aggressivity, or risk they present to occupants of cars, especially in side impacts. We use FARS data to look at fatality trends in frontal and side impacts between cars and LDT. FARS data is also used to determine risk, or fatalities per registered vehicle, imposed on car drivers from other vehicle types. We use NASS CDS data to investigate sources of serious injuries in vehicles with side impact. These sources of injury are categorized into three major groups: 1) contact without intrusion, 2) contact with intrusion, and 3) restraints. We find a greater fraction of intrusion related injuries in cars struck on their side by SUV or pick-up trucks than when they are struck by other cars.
Empirical vehicle crashworthiness studies are usually based on national or in-depth traffic accident surveys: Data on accident-involved cars/drivers are analysed in order to quantify the chance of driver injury and to assess certain risk factors like car make and model. As the cars/drivers involved in the same accident form a "cluster", where the size of the cluster equals the number of accident-involved parties, traffic accident survey data are typical multi-level data with accidents as first-level or primary and cars/drivers as secondlevel or secondary units (car occupants in general are to be considered as third level units). Consequently, appropriate statistical multi-level models are to be used for driver injury risk estimation purposes as these models properly account for the cluster structure of traffic accident survey data. In recent years various types of regression models for clustered data have been developed in the statistical sciences. This paper presents multi-level statistical models, which are generally applicable for vehicle crashworthiness assessment in the sense that data on single and multiple car crashes can be analysed simultaneously. As a special case of multi-level modelling driver injury risk estimation based on paired-by-collision car/driver data is considered. It is demonstrated that assessment results may be seriously biased, if the cluster structure inherent in traffic accident survey data is erroneously ignored in the data analysis stage.
From an automotive safety occupant protection standpoint, effective occupant restraint requires a system capable of providing non-injurious occupant ride down of anticipated crash forces. This is not only the case for frontal collisions, where occupant restraint is provided primarily by seatbelts and airbags, but is also critical for other crash modes such as side impacts, rear impacts, rollovers, as well as multiple impact events. In the rear impact crash mode, occupant restraint is provided primarily by the seatbacks and to some extent the seatbelts. Foundationally, therefore, what becomes fundamental to the seatback's role in rear occupant protection is its ability to contain the occupant within the seat, preventing occupant ramping, as well as preventing the seat's, and/or its occupant's, dangerous intrusion into the rear occupant's survival space where contact with rear compartment components and/ or rear seated occupants can present a significant injury risk. An analysis is presented of a series of rear impact sled testing conducted by the authors that evaluates the timing, position and extent of the front seatback's reward displacement toward and into the rear occupant compartment as well as consideration of the front seat occupant' ramping potential and its injury potential relative to the rear compartment. Additionally, three other series of testing are presented which assess various seat designs occupant retention capabilities. Lastly, a matched-pair comparison test series is presented which evaluates occupant motion in rear impact with and without use of a typical vehicle body mounted 3-point seatbelt. Discussion of restraint system performance observed in all the testing is included along with ATD biofidelity and thigh-gap considerations. The data collected and presented includes accelerometer instrumentation and high speed video analysis.
Seit Anfang der 70er Jahre kann im Bereich der passiven Sicherheit eine stetige Verbesserung durch die Abnahme der im Verkehr verletzten und getöteten Personen beobachtet werden. Weitere fahrzeugtechnische Optimierungen zur Verbesserung von Selbst- und Partnerschutz, unterstützt und forciert durch flankierende legislative Maßnahmen, sind durchzuführen, wobei parallel die Effizienz bereits getroffener Maßnahmen zu prüfen ist. In der Pilotstudie wird der Versuch gemacht, ausgehend von bekannten Erkenntnissen der Unfallanalyse, das Gesamtunfallgeschehen Pkw zu realitätsbezogenen, in ihren Wirkungsmechanismen gleichartigen Unfallkonstellationen zusammenzufassen. Die Reduzierung auf wenige Kollisionstypen schafft die Möglichkeit zur Erarbeitung von Testbedingungen. Die im Test nachzufahrenden Unfallkonstellationen und die statisch/dynamische Untersuchung einzelner Fahrzeugkomponenten dokumentieren sich in physikalischen Messwerten und fahrzeugbezogenen Größen. Ein Bewertungssystem addiert die Messwerte auf und versieht sie mit relevanzproportionalen Wichtungsfaktoren zu einem Sicherheitsgrad. Praktische Bedeutung hat das Projekt zum Beispiel für die quantitative Ermittlung des Sicherheitsfortschrittes innerhalb eines Zeitraumes von 10 bis 15 Jahren, der Untersuchung von Sicherheitskomponenten und der Effizienzüberprüfung legislativer Sicherheitsverordnungen etc.
Das Ziel des Forschungsprojekts "Quantifizierung der Passiven Sicherheit für Pkw-Insassen" besteht darin, Messergebnisse in Form von Dummybelastungswerten zu einem Sicherheitsindex zu verdichten. Zur Formulierung des dazu erforderlichen Bewertungsalgorithmus wurden folgende Zusammenhänge erarbeitet: 1. Beziehung zwischen Verletzungsschwere und Dummybelastungsgröße für relevante Körperteile, 2. Relevanzfaktoren zur Wichtung der Teilergebnisse und 3. Zusammenhang zwischen körperteilspezifischen Schutzkriterien und dem entsprechenden Erfüllungsgrad. Die wesentliche Aufmerksamkeit erforderte die Bereitstellung der Relevanzstruktur, da mit den einzelnen Relevanzfaktoren die gemessenen Belastungen entsprechend der Bedeutung der im realen Unfallgeschehen beobachteten Verletzungen bewertet werden sollten. Im Bereich der experimentellen Simulation lag das Hauptaugenmerk auf der Bereitstellung der Versuchsbedingungen, wobei die gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Sicherheitsversuche zu berücksichtigen waren. Daraus ergab sich die Festlegung auf folgende Versuchskonstellationen: 1. Frontaler Wandaufprall, 2. Seitenaufprall einer fahrbaren Barriere auf den stehenden Pkw und 3. Kompatibilitätsversuch, bei dem ein Fahrzeug seitlich mit einem anderen Fahrzeug gleichen Typs kollidiert. Mit Hilfe eines erarbeiteten Bewertungsalgorithmus werden die versuchstechnisch gemessenen Belastungswerte normiert und der Bewertungsfunktion zugeführt. Die so ermittelten Erfüllungsgrade erhalten durch die Relevanzfaktoren eine unfallspezifische Wichtung und lassen sich über Teilsicherheitsindizes zu einem Gesamt-Sicherheitsindex zusammenfassen. Dieser Sicherheitsindex soll Aufschluss über das Niveau der inneren Sicherheit von Pkw geben.