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Serious injuries to the upper and especially the lower extremities are frequently disabling, and are a challenging issue for countermeasure design. This paper evaluates the risk of upper and lower extremity injury for vehicle occupants exposed to far side crashes. Based on the analysis of U.S. crash data from NASS/CDS 1995-2004 and Australian crash data from MIDS 1989MIDS -2004, , this study examines the injury outcome of over 4500 car, light truck, and van occupants subjected to far side impact. The analysis was restricted to 3-point belted occupants. The paper evaluates the nature of these upper and lowers extremity impact injuries by examining the relevant prevalence of injury by skeletal, vascular, or other soft tissue region injured in each crash. As a means of developing countermeasure development priorities, the paper presents injury risk as a function of injury contact source, struck body type, collision partner, delta-V, crash direction (PDOF), and occupant compartment intrusion. Injury risk is evaluated using the maximum injury severity for each occupant, by injury severity for each body region, and by Harm, a social cost measure.

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Author

J.M. Cavanaugh; J. Augenstein; J. Stratton; J. Mackinson; L. Labiste; E. Perdeck

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0021-9290)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)