Designing road vehicles for pedestrian protection

Most pedestrian-vehicle crashes involve frontal impacts, and the vehicle front structures are responsible for most pedestrian injuries (fig 1). In a frontal impact, the chronology of the crash scenario is well documented: the vehicle bumper contacts the lower limbs, the leading edge of the bonnet st...

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Published in:BMJ 2002-05, Vol.324 (7346), p.1145-1148
Main Authors: Crandall, J R, Bhalla, K S, Madeley, N J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents, Traffic
Automobiles
Automobiles - standards
Biological and medical sciences
Bonnets
Consumer Product Safety
Craniocerebral trauma
Craniocerebral Trauma - prevention & control
Death
Design
Design engineering
Education And Debate
Equipment Design
Head
Highway traffic
Humans
Lower extremity
Medical sciences
Motor vehicles
Pedestrian traffic
Pedestrians
Physical trauma
Safety
Traffic accidents & safety
Transport. Aerospace. Diving. Altitude
Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
Windshields
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Summary:Most pedestrian-vehicle crashes involve frontal impacts, and the vehicle front structures are responsible for most pedestrian injuries (fig 1). In a frontal impact, the chronology of the crash scenario is well documented: the vehicle bumper contacts the lower limbs, the leading edge of the bonnet strikes the proximal lower limb or pelvis, and, finally, the head and upper torso hit the top surface of the bonnet or windscreen (fig 2).
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
0959-535X
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.324.7346.1145