Applications of occupant and injury biomechanics data available in the CIREN public data set

Rudd, Rodney W.; Lockerby, Jack

Affiliations

¹National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, D.C., USA

²Bowhead Logistics Solutions

Abstract and keywords

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) program collects crash and injury data from seriously injured occupants of motor vehicle crashes in the United States. While vehicle and scene data are collected using standard NHTSA field crash investigation protocols, the multi‐disciplinary CIREN case review process establishes detailed injury causation scenarios according to a formalised procedure referred to as BioTab. Case data are available for public use via an Internet‐based case viewer and in tabular data sets. The objectives of this paper are to introduce and demonstrate the capabilities of the tabular data sets. In addition to high‐level examination of the public data set, several in‐ depth analyses, made possible by the case viewer, will be presented as examples of how the data can be used for occupant protection research.

Keywords: Crash data, Biomechanics, Injury causation, Field data, BioTab

Links

URL: http://www.ircobi.org/wordpress/downloads/irc18/pdf-files/10.pdf

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