Side Impacts-Test Crashes and Real-World Collisions
Technical Paper
896111
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English
Abstract
The complexity of inter-related events occurring in injury-
producing vehicle side impacts makes it necessary to validate
controlled prospective crash studies with retrospective real-world
investigations. Adequately detailed field investigation of side
impact collisions is a necessary complement to controlled crash
studies and other test procedures and modeling.
Over the past five years, the authors have collected a
representative sample of over five hundred injury-producing crashes
involving passenger cars in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Case
studies from this dataset have been selected which closely conform
to the impact type, and collision severity, of the proposals for
staged- collision testing with respect to side-impact protection
standards. The implications for occupant protection are examined,
through a review of the injuries sustained by the vehicle occupants
in these real-world crashes.