The single-case analysis of well documented pedestrian accidents involving impact speeds above 50 kph has yielded findings on the kinematics of accidents on the basis of damage and injuries sustained. In particular, it has been possible to assign the type and location of head injuries to the specific stages of an accident.

Since, at high collision speeds and particularly in the case of unbraked impacts, there are seldom any marks on the road surface and marks on the vehicle are difficult to assign, experimental accident simulations have been performed with the frontal impact of passenger cars against stationary pedestrian dummies.

The test results provide information on the motion of the dummy during and after collision, the impact events, the head- and body-contact zones, the potential injury possibilities as well as the time and velocity curves of vehicle and dummy during an accident.