Age and gender effects on injury outcome for restrained occupants in frontal crashes: a comparison of UK and US data bases

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Mackay, Murray¹; Hassan, Ahamedali M.¹

Age and gender effects on injury outcome for restrained occupants in frontal crashes: a comparison of UK and US data bases

44th Annual Proceedings, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)

Affiliations

¹Birmingham Automotive Safety Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Abstract

Field accident data from NASS/CDS in the US and CCIS in the UK are compared. The UK sample is deliberately weighted to conform to the same AIS proportions (within AIS 2 – 6) as the weighted NASS data so that crash severity distributions can be compared for various selected outcomes. Age and gender have a significant effect on the deltaV distributions and median deltaV values. These differences are documented both for overall AIS 2 - 6, 3 - 6, and 4 - 6, and also for body regions of the head, neck, chest, abdomen and upper and lower extremities. Anomalies between the two samples are profound which raises doubts about the recording of belt use in NASS and the calculation of deltaV at lower crash severities.

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