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A preliminary evaluation of passenger airbag effectiveness in Australia
Technical Paper
2001-06-0195
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Language:
English
Abstract
A preliminary case-control study of passenger airbag deployments
in frontal crashes (in which a passenger was present) was
undertaken. The study was conducted as part of an on-going study of
vehicle crash performance and occupant injury at Monash University
Accident Research Center (MUARC). The results of this preliminary
study suggest that the US experience of fatalities caused by
interaction of the passenger with the deploying airbag is not
shared in Australia. This is probably because the seat-belt use in
this study was 100%. These preliminary results reinforce the view
that such airbags should be used as supplementary restraint
systems.
Further studies are planned to monitor the performance of
passenger-airbags and to provide more in-depth analyses when more
data become available.