Accidents between pedestrians and industrial vehicles:​ from injury patterns to dummy and truck prototypes

Beillas, Philippe; Mero, Mario; Belon, Steve; Maupas, Alain; Desfontaines, Hervé; Deloffre, Philippe; Lapauw, Pierre-Yves; Huet, Laurent; Charnaux, Sébastien

Affiliations

¹Université de Lyon, F-69000, Lyon, France

²Ifsttar, LBMC, UMR_T9406, F-69675, Bron, Université Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France

³Renault Trucks SAS – Volvo 3P, 99 route de Lyon. F-69806 Saint-Priest, France

⁴Segula Technologies Sud, BU-CALCUL, R&I, F-69800 Saint-Priest, France

⁵Plastic Omnium Auto Extérieur, Research and Innovation Dept, F-01150, Sainte Julie, France

Abstract

This paper provides new results on the safety of pedestrians involved in accidents with industrial vehicles such as trucks and buses. The analysis of two accident databases highlighted the importance of the frontal impacts, run over scenario and the thorax loading for this accident type (when using car pedestrian accidents as a reference). The accidents where then studied using full scale tests conducted with three standard industrial vehicles, one prototype and two pedestrian dummies (including a new modified dummy). The test results include an analysis of the kinematics and of dummy signals. Beyond specific test results, the study describes the development of a possible methodology to improve the safety of vulnerable road users involved in accidents with industrial vehicles and discusses a possible strategy.

Links

URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv22/22ESV-000355.pdf

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