This paper presents preliminary anecdotal crash information specific to child occupants involved in 27 on-going special crash investigations cases in various stages of analysis, compiled to date. These investigations encompass collecting, documenting and analyzing all evidence necessary to reconstruct the events before, during and after the crash. None of the restrained child occupant cases are in final form; therefore only limited information is available at this time. However, initial data collection involving a sampling of these 27 cases includes comparison examples of the following: both specific and general findings linking injury levels to crash severity, configuration of restrained and unrestrained child passengers, type of child restraint used, how the restraint was used and installed in the vehicle, and resultant injuries to the child occupants. For the covering abstract see ITRD E825082.
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