There is a very real need for the protection of pedestrians in the event of a collision with a vehicle. Test procedures such as those developed by the European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Comitte (EEVC) provide a means of assessing the performance of technology that is introduced to protect pedestrians in collision. Ten head impacts between pedestrians and cars were reconstructed to compare the head injuries sustained by pedestrians with the results of reconstruction tests using the headform impactors designated by the EEVC Working Group 10 for assessing pedestrian head protection. The methodology of this study included at-scene accident investigation, computer simulation, and physical reconstruction in a laboratory of the head impacts that occured in the accident cases that were investigated. The main finding was that the results from using the EEVC headform impactors test correlate well with the severity of any head injury, as measured by the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), in actual pedestrian accidents. Head impacts that exceeded a Head Injury Criterion value of 1000 were positively associated with head injuries that were AIS3 or above.


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    Title :

    Pedestrian subsystem head impact results reflect the severity of pedestrian head injuries


    Additional title:

    Die Ergebnisse von Teiluntersuchungen von Fußgänger-Kopfaufschlägen geben die Schwere der Fußgänger-Kopfverletzungen wider


    Contributors:
    Anderson, R. (author) / Streeter, L. (author) / Ponte, G. (author) / Van de Griend, M. (author) / Lindsay, T. (author) / McLean, J. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    15 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 19 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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