Kinematics of Belted Fatalities in Frontal Collisions: A New Approach in Deep Studies of Injury Mechanisms

Lindquist, Mats; Hall, Anthony D.; Björnstig, Ulf

doi:10.1097/01.ta.0000210496.52412.02

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“…Crashes into trucks often cause an under-ride deformation of the passenger car, with intrusion into the upper half of the passenger compartment (Fig. 6), causing severe head and chest injuries (Lindquist et al, 2004;Lindquist et al, 2006). On the other hand, modern safety systems in passenger cars, such as airbags and seat belt tension limiters, should protect against just head and chest injuries, but in these crashes their effect is probably limited.…”

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Passenger car collision fatalities – with special emphasis on collisions with heavy vehicles

Björnstig

Björnstig²,

Eriksson

2008

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Passenger car collision fatalities – with special emphasis on collisions with heavy vehicles

Björnstig

Björnstig²,

Eriksson

2008

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Seatbelts were more effective in preventing serious head injuries in large overlap compared to small overlap frontal impacts [16]. …”

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Seatbelts and road traffic collision injuries

2011

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Modification of seatbelts and their legislation played an important role in reducing morbidity and mortality of occupants in road traffic collisions. We aimed to review seatbelt development, its mechanism of action and its effects. Seatbelts reduce injury by preventing the occupant from hitting the interior parts of the vehicle or being ejected from the car. We have made a linear regression correlation between the overall seatbelt compliance and road traffic death rates in 46 high income countries to study the relationship between seatbelt use and mortality. There was a very highly significant negative correlation between the seatbelt compliance and road traffic death rates (R = - 0.77, F = 65.5, p < 0.00001). Seatbelt-related injuries include spinal, abdominal or pelvic injuries. The presence of a seatbelt sign must raise the suspicion of an intra-abdominal injury. These injuries can be reduced if seatbelts were applied correctly. Although seatbelts were recognized as an important safety measure, it still remains underused in many countries. Enforcement of seatbelt usage by law is mandatory so as to reduce the toll of death of road traffic collisions.

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“…Even if a vehicle complies with the criteria, it was judged that it would be impossible to protect the occupant with today's vehicle safety systems in these crashes. According to Lindquist et al (2006) and Lindquist (2007), the injury mechanisms in small-overlap crashes differ compared with full-frontal crashes and the vehicle safety performance in small-overlap crashes needs to be improved. Therefore, more efforts are needed to solve the road traffic problem with small-overlap crashes.…”

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Use of Car Crashes Resulting in Fatal and Serious Injuries to Analyze a Safe Road Transport System Model and to Identify System Weaknesses

Stigson

Hill

2009

Traffic Injury Prevention

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The model for a safe road transport system was found useful to classify fatal and serious road vehicle crashes. It was possible to classify 90 percent of the crashes according to the safety road transport model. For all these cases it was possible to identify weaknesses and parts of the road transport system with the highest potential to prevent fatal and serious injuries. Injury outcomes were mostly related to an interaction between the 3 components: the road, the vehicle, and the road user.

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Kinematics of Belted Fatalities in Frontal Collisions: A New Approach in Deep Studies of Injury Mechanisms

Abstract: Current government and consumer barrier crash test procedures are not designed to estimate the performance of cars and restraint systems for the type of crashes which caused the majority of occupant fatalities in this data set.

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

Passenger car collision fatalities – with special emphasis on collisions with heavy vehicles

Passenger car collision fatalities – with special emphasis on collisions with heavy vehicles

Seatbelts and road traffic collision injuries

Use of Car Crashes Resulting in Fatal and Serious Injuries to Analyze a Safe Road Transport System Model and to Identify System Weaknesses

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