An evaluation of the EuroNCAP crash test safety ratings in the real world.

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Seguí-Gómez, M. Lopez-Valdes, F.J. & Frampton, R.
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Abstract

We investigated whether the rating obtained in the EuroNCAP test procedures correlates with injury protection to vehicle occupants in real crashes using data in the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) database from 1996 to 2005. Multivariate Poisson regression models were developed, using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score by body region as the dependent variable and the EuroNCAP score for that particular body region, seat belt use, mass ratio and Equivalent Test Speed (ETS) as independent variables. Our models identified statistically significant relationships between injury severity and safety belt use, mass ratio and ETS. We could not identify any statistically significant relationships between the EuroNCAP body region scores and real injury outcome except for the protection to pelvis-femur-knee in frontal impacts where scoring “green” is significantly better than scoring “yellow” or “red”. (Author/publisher)

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20072253 a18 ST (In: ST 20072253 CD-ROM)
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In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Melbourne, Australia, October 14-17, 2007, p. 281-298, 11 ref.

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