Passenger injuries in collisions and their relation to general speed scale.

Author(s)
Langwieder, K.
Year
Abstract

Injuries sustained by car occupants were studied on the basis of representative material comprising 29000 accidents. As a unit of reference in defining typical accident categories, the relative collision speed (RCS) was defined, rendering it possible to take into account of real life factors. The importance of the RCS as a categorizing method is discussed in relation to the equivalent test speed (ETS) in crash tests. The frequency of actual accidents with regard to five typical accident categories and the resulting passenger injuries are indicated.

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B 6851 (In: B 3364 S [electronic version only]) /84.1/ IRRD 211195
Source

In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Stapp Car Crash Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 12-13, 1973, p. 1-34, fig., graph., tab., ref.; SAE paper No. 730963

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