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Analysis of the Rescue Activities of Injured Vehicle Occupants by Rescue Team
Technical Paper
2010-08-0089
Sector:
Event:
JSAE Spring Conference
Language:
Japanese
Abstract
Fire fighters have to carry out rescue activities of injured
occupants in traffic accidents. The occupants are frequently
trapped in devastated vehicle structures. However, few analysis of
the relation between the vehicle structure and the rescue
procedures has been done.
In this report, accident cases and associated rescue activities
were statistically analyzed. As a result, the rescue time required
by fire fighters was 20 minutes on average. However, 14 rescues
required over 31 minutes. When there were two or more persons to be
rescued, the average rescue time exceeded 30 minutes. Rescues
involving heavy truck frontal impacts took twice as long as rescues
involving passenger car casualties. Moreover, rescue activities in
which the colliding vehicle was a heavy truck required more rescue
time than passenger car accidents.