As part of the Pedestrian Protection Program, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is conducting research to reduce pedestrian thoracic injury from contact with vehicle face regions. The initial study addresses child pedestrians in which translational, lateral impact occurs. Accident cases involving small children (ages 2 to 13 years old) were reconstructed in the laboratory using a component surrogate thoracic device developed at the Vehicle Research and Test Center. From these reconstructions, relationships between several injury criteria and observed injury severity levels were developed. Presented in the report are short descriptons of the development of the surrogate thoracic device and the reconstruction methodology. Tentative threshold values are presented for peak chest compression, average rib/spine accelerations, and the viscous injury criterion.
Experimental Child Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction: Thoracic Impact
1988
46 pages
Report
No indication
English
Pedestrian accident reconstruction
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