Motorradschutzhelme

Identifizierung ihres Verbesserungspotenzials unter Berücksichtigung des Motorradunfallgeschehens. [Motorcycle protective helmet - Identification of the optimization potential of regarding statistics and characteristics of motorcycle accidents.] Bericht zum Forschungsprojekt FE 82.0550/2012 der Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen BAS
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Pollak, S. Schueler, F. Bourdet, N. Deck, C. & Willinger, R.
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Abstract

The number of accidents involving powered single track vehicles (PSTV) with severe or fatal injuries to the riders continues to be alarmingly high compared with the total number of fatalities in other road accidents. In 2013, 641 riders were killed and 12,034 were seriously injured in a total number of 42,427 PSTV accidents. In 2012, 679 riders were killed and 12,524 were seriously injured. In order to reduce this high number of seriously injured or killed motorcycle riders and to help achieve the 4th EU Action Program for Road Safety aimed at cutting road deaths in the European Union in half until 2020 (reference year 2010) the German Federal Highway Research Institute has initiated the present project. The aim of this project is to analyse accident data of powered single track vehicles, to perform supplementary computer-based FEM simulations and to critically evaluate the UNECE-Regulation UN-R 22/05 with regard to trauma biomechanics (tests and test values) thus obtaining targeted findings, to identify needs for action and to work out proposals for revision of UN-R 22/05 and general measures to improve the above situation. From the official accident data pool of the German Federal Office of Statistics at Wiesbaden (DESTATIS) PSTV-accident data were analysed in general. For a detailed evaluation, data of the "German In-Depth Accident Study" – GIDAS data (Dresden and Hanover) was chosen. About half of the PSTV accidents investigated in subgroup n=199 showed head injuries. In most cases, a protective helmet had been used. In 18%, the main injuries were located in the region of the head; in 48%, the victims had no head injuries but serious to critical or fatal injuries to the body. About 10% of the PSTV riders had no helmet at all or used an absolutely unsuitable helmet. Recommendations and proposals were worked out for further activities relating to a revision of UN-R 22/05 concerning the range of type tests, type test equipment, type test performance, test criteria and limits as well as for a forgery-proof homologation label. (Author/publisher)

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20180126 ST [electronic version only]
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Bergisch Gladbach, Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen BASt, 2018, 113 p., ref.; Berichte der Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen : Fahrzeugtechnik ; Heft F 123 - ISSN 0943-9307 / ISBN 978-3-95606-367-1

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