The Relationship Between Car Size and Occupant Injury in Traffic Accidents in Japan
970123
02/24/1997
- Event
- Content
- The relationship between car size and occupant injury is examined using traffic accident data from all over Japan. For head-on collisions, the occupant injury rate is formulated based on the approximation of occupant injury by delta-V. The effects on occupant injury of the sizes of the striking and struck vehicles, as well as the effects of seat belt use and vehicle velocity, are examined in head-on, side-impact and single-car collisions.As occupant injuries are also influenced by the other car or cars involved in a collision, the number and size distribution of vehicles is important. Sensitivity analysis shows that the effect of the number of lighter cars is greater in head-on collisions and that the effect of the number of heavier cars is greater in side-impact collisions, relative to the total number of fatalities.
- Pages
- 17
- Citation
- Mizuno, K., Umeda, T., and Yonezawa, H., "The Relationship Between Car Size and Occupant Injury in Traffic Accidents in Japan," SAE Technical Paper 970123, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/970123.