Biomechanical investigation of injury mechanisms in rollover crashes from the ciren database

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Ridella, Stephen A.; Eigen, Ana Maria

Biomechanical investigation of injury mechanisms in rollover crashes from the ciren database

Proceedings of the 2008 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact

Affiliations

¹National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, US Department of Transportation
Abstract and keywords

Previous research has described the types of injuries suffered by belted occupants of vehicles involved in rollover crashes. There has been much debate concerning these injuries, in particular the head, spine and thoracic injuries. Since rollovers may result in complex occupant kinematics, this paper analyzed extensive crash field and descriptive injury data from 55 belted occupants involved in 51 rollover crashes taken from the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) database. The paper discusses a methodology to deduce specific body region injury mechanisms of occupants in rollover crashes selected for crash as well as occupant characteristics.

Keywords: Rollover Crashes; Crash Investigations; Kinematics; Injury Severity; Mechanics

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