Relevance on injury causation of vehicle parts in car to pedestrian impacts in different accident configurations of the traffic scenario and aspects of accident avoidance and injury prevention

Otte, Dietmar; Huefner, Tobias

Affiliations

¹Medical University Hannover, Accident Research Unit, Germany

²Medical University Hannover, Department of Trauma Surgery, Germany

Abstract

This study is concerned with the analysis of pedestrian accidents and the corresponding analysis, which injuries are caused by what type of vehicle impact in different accident scenarios. The question is: to what extent can innovative driver assistance systems and measures in traffic environment help to avoid or completely prevent injuries of pedestrians. For this purpose, a total of n=1107 accidents documented in surveys in Hannover and Dresden involving passenger cars and pedestrians were examined and the injury situations shown. To this end, characteristic values such as driving and collision speed, injury severity MAIS and AIS of the individual injuries for different accident scenarios were regarded. For the identification of the relevant accident scenarios, classifications of the accident types were used and many of those represented in statistically representative accident material GIDAS (German in-Depth-Accident Study - 1) for the years 1995 to 2004 were filtered out. The study should be of assistance and support decision-making in the evaluation of future technical innovative measures for accident avoidance and thus injury reduction

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