Child casualties in fatal car crashes

Vallee, Harold; Caillieret, Marie Christine; Faverjon, Gerard; Le Coz, Jean Yves; Heinrich, Jean Marie; Thomas, Christian; Got, Claude; Patel, Alain

Affiliations

¹Accident Research and Biomechanics Laboratory Associated with Peugeot S.A./Renault

²Poissy Intercommunal Hospital Centre

³Institute of Biomechanics and Accident Research

⁴Orthopaedic Research Institute

Abstract

The circumstances in which children aged less than 10 travelling in passenger cars are severely injured or killed are different from the circumstances in the case of adults.

Our knowledge in this field of safety is very limited at present, because it is hard to collect a large sample of severe accidents involving children.

On the basis of police reports on fatal crashes occurring in France in 1990, concerning 417 casualties aged less than 10, one quarter of whom were killed, we propose defining the characteristics of such crashes by analyzing the following parameters:

Child transportation conditions;
Crash circumstances;
Restraining systems.

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