680483: Lower Extremity Injuries of Front Seat Occupants - Technical Paper

Event: Mid-Year Meeting

Authors

School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Arnold W. Siegel

School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Philip V. Hight

School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Samuel H. Brooks

School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

Content: A study was made of 290 collisions containing 464 front seat car occupants. Of the 405 injured occupants, 141 received their lower extremity injuries against the instrument panel.

The occupant’s most serious injury was related to car model year, age of occupant, vehicle weight, and estimated impact speed. Statistically, a regression analysis shows a very strong correlation of these variables and collision injury.

It is significant that the number of lower extremity injuries drops steeply for vehicles from 1957 through 1967.

Rear seat occupant injuries were not considered in this paper.

Meta Tags

Topics: Instrument panels
Injuries
Vehicle occupants

Affiliated or Co-Author: School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Details

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4271/680483

Pages: 18

Citation: Nahum, A., Siegel, A., Hight, P., and Brooks, S., "Lower Extremity Injuries of Front Seat Occupants," SAE Technical Paper 680483, 1968, https://doi.org/10.4271/680483.

Additional Details

Publisher: SAE International

Published: Feb 1, 1968

Product Code: 680483

Content Type: Technical Paper

Language: English