Assessment of injury severity of nearside occupants in pole impacts to side of passenger cars in European traffic accidents:​ analysis of German and UK in-depth data

Otte, Dietmar; Sferco, Raimondo; Schäfer, Roland; Eis, Volker; Thomas, Pete; Welsh, Ruth

Affiliations

³Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Abstract

The national accident statistics demonstrate that the situation of passenger car side impacts is dominated by car to car accidents. Car side to pole impacts are relatively infrequent events. However the importance of car side to pole impacts is significantly increasing with fatal and seriously injured occupants. For the present study the German in-depth database GIDAS (German In-Depth-Accident Study) and the UK database CCIS (Co-operative Crash Injury Study) were used. Two approaches were undertaken to better understand the scenario of car to pole impacts. The first part is a statistical analysis of passenger car side to pole impacts to describe the characteristics and their importance relevant to other types of impact and to get further knowledge about the main factors influencing the accident outcome. The second part contains a case by case review on passenger cars first registered 1998 onwards to further investigate this type of impact including regression analysis to assess the relationship between injury severity and pole impact relevant factors.

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