Minor rear aligned crashes in the United States : a pilot study of 98 crashes.

Author(s)
Bartsch, A. Gilbertson, L. Prakash, V. Morr, D. & Wiechel, J.
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Abstract

In the United States there are few available data regarding real world minor rear aligned crashes with struck vehicle delta-V less than 15 km/h. This study analysed 98 such crashes in the US involving 258 occupants. Mean struck vehicle delta-V and acceleration were 6.4 km/h and 1.4 g, respectively. Within five weeks post-crash, 105 struck vehicle occupants had 695 ICD-9-CM diagnoses and 399 AIS codeable injuries (99.5% AIS1) attributed to the crashes. Diagnosis and injury distributions in these crashes did not match prior data from real world crashes. Transient AIS1 'whiplash' injuries during the post-crash medical treatment period were less prominent than anticipated. Transient complaints were frequently diagnosed to protected body regions. Prospects of litigation may have played a role in different occupant injuries reported in the current cohort when compared with prospectively collected data sets. For the covering abstract see ITRD E144229.

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C 49831 (In: C 49805 CD-ROM) /80 /84 / ITRD E144255
Source

In: Proceedings of the 2008 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, Bern (Switzerland), September 17-19, 2008, Pp.

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