U.S. consumer crash test results and injury risk in police-reported crashes.

Author(s)
Newstead, S.V. Farmer, C.M. Narayan, S. & Cameron, M.H.
Year
Abstract

This paper considers relationships between recent U.S. frontal crash test results from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and USNCAP, and real-world crash injury risk estimates computed from police-reported crash data from three U.S. states. The frontal crash test results include dummy injury measures by body region from both IIHS offset tests and USNCAP full-width barrier tests plus measures of structural performance from the IIHS offset tests. Individually, results from the full-width and offset tests were not significantly correlated with the real-world injury risk estimates. Stronger relationships were found when a combination of overall ratings from the full frontal and offset tests was used. The current results find only weak correlations between both full-front and offset frontal crash test performance and the real-world injury risk estimates. These weak relationships likely reflect the lack of detail and fundamental difference in injury information in police crash reports compared to that used in deriving crashworthiness ratings from the crash tests. (Author/publisher)

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C 25631 [electronic version only] /81 / ITRD E208005
Source

Clayton, Victoria, Monash University, Accident Research Centre MUARC, 2002, IX + 33 p., 23 ref.; MUARC Report ; No. 191 - ISBN 0-7326-1490-2

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