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Safe transportation solutions for children with special needs
Technical Paper
1987-12-0019
Published September 28, 1987 by Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine in United States
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English
Abstract
The purpose of this work was to test and evaluate safe
transportation systems for children with medical problems. Several
crash tests were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of
restraint systems for children with low birth weight, congenital
hip dislocation, pierre robin sequence, and body casts.
To perform the tests, several special dummies were developed and
some of the restraint systems were modified.
Restraint systems that performed successfully during dynamic
crash testing and that showed promise in addressing specific
transportation problems were provided on a loan basis with
satisfactory results.
The crash test results and the success reported by users of the
restraint systems demonstrate that there are several devices
available for transporting children with medical problems.