Occupant protection in far side crashes

Fildes, Brian; Linder, Astrid; Douglas, Clay; Digges, Kennerly; Morgan, Rick; Pintar, Frank; Yogandan, Narayan; Gabler, Hampton Clay; Duma, Stefan; Stitzel, Joel; Bostrom, Ola; Sparke, Laurie; Smith, Stu; Newland, Craig

Affiliations

¹Monash University Accident Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia

²George Washington University (NCAC), Virginia

³Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

⁴Virginia Tech – Wake Forest, Center for Injury, Virginia

⁵Autoliv Research, Sweden

⁶Holden Innovation, Melbourne, Australia

⁷Dept. Transport and Regional Services, Canberra, Australia

Abstract

Regulations and interventions to protect far side occupants in side impact crashes do not currently exist, even though these occupants account for up to 40% of harm in real world side impact crashes. To address this, a comprehensive international research program has been assembled involving many of the world’s experts in side impact protection and biomechanics. Seven work-tasks are outlined for conducting this research, which is due to be completed by the end of 2007.

Links

URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv19/05-0299-O.pdf

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2005	Digges K, Gabler H, Mohan P, Alonso B. Characteristics of the injury environment in far-side crashes. In: 49th Annual Proceedings, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM). September 12-14, 2005; Boston, MA.185-197.
2008	Bostrom O, Gabler HC, Digges K, Fildes B, Sunnevang C. Injury reduction opportunities of far side impact countermeasures. In: 52nd Annual Proceedings, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM). October 6-8, 2008; San Diego, CA.289-299.
2005	Gabler HC, Fitzharris M, Scully J, Fildes BN, Digges K, Sparke L. Far side impact injury risk for belted occupants in Australia and the United States. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 6-9, 2005; Washington, DC.
2007	Douglas CA, Fildes BN, Gibson TJ, Boström O, Pintar FA. Modeling the seat belt to shoulder-complex interaction in far-side crashes. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 18-21, 2007; Lyon, France.
2007	Fildes B, Fitzharris M, Gabler HC, Digges K, Smith S. Chest and abdominal injuries to occupants in far side crashes. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 18-21, 2007; Lyon, France.
2018	Umale S, Arun MWJ, Hauschild H, Humm JR, Pintar FA, Yoganandan N. Quantitative evaluation of THOR, World SID and Hybrid III under far‐side impacts: a finite element study. In: Proceedings of the 2018 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury. September 12-14, 2018; Athens, Greece.608-629.
2017	Scanlon JM III. Evaluating the Potential of an Intersection Driver Assistance System to Prevent U.S. Intersection Crashes [PhD thesis]. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; March 24, 2017.
2019	Tatem WM. The Crash Injury Risk to Rear Seated Passenger Vehicle Occupants [PhD thesis]. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; December 13, 2019.