Interaction of car passengers in frontal, side and rear collisions

Farber, E.; Pullwitt, E.

Affiliations

¹Federal Highway Research Institute, Cologne, Germany

Abstract

With rising shortage of energy resources and higher fuel prices it is expected that the passenger rate per car will rise in the future.

Based on earlier observations at the test facility of the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) a project about interaction of car passengers was conducted. The project is supported by the EEC Biomechanics Program, Phase 2. 30 Tests were conducted for frontal, side and rear collisions from end 1979 till June 1980. The aim of this paper is to report and discuss these results and to present conclusions. It is expected that the project will be continued within the EEC Biomechanics Program, Phase 3.

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