Roof Crush Versus Occupant Injury From 1988 to 1992 NASS

980210

02/23/1998

Event
International Congress & Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
Rollover accidents account for a large number of serious to fatal injuries annually. In the past, these injuries were often the result of unrestrained occupant ejection. Subsequent to mandatory belt use laws, a larger percentage of these injuries occur inside the vehicle, and the head and neck areas sustain a substantial number of these injuries.
An analytical effort to understand rollover injuries, using the field accident data of the NASS files and residual headroom as an indicator, was reported by the authors at the 1996 ESV conference in Melbourne, Australia. This paper describes the relationship between roof crush and restrained occupant injury in rollover accidents as derived from the analysis of 1988-1992 NASS files. It extends the residual headroom parameter to the entire population of head, face and neck occupants injured inside the compartment.1
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/980210
Pages
5
Citation
Friedman, D., and Friedman, K., "Roof Crush Versus Occupant Injury From 1988 to 1992 NASS," SAE Technical Paper 980210, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/980210.
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Published
Feb 23, 1998
Product Code
980210
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English