Title :
Serious injury in rear vehicular impacts
Author :
Sances, Anthony, Jr. ; Friedman, Keith ; Gaston, Fiona ; Bish, Jack
Author_Institution :
Biomech. Inst., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Various studies suggest that yielding vehicular seats reduce the potential for injury, in contrast others suggest serious trauma to front and rear seat occupants when front seats collapse rearwards. This study shows that front seat failures cause greater serious injury to front seat occupants with the same change in vehicle speed due to a rear impact
Keywords :
accidents; automobiles; biomechanics; impact (mechanical); car accidents; front seat failures; front seat occupants; rear seat occupants; rear vehicular impacts; seat collapse; serious injury; serious trauma; vehicle speed change; Accidents; Automotive engineering; Biomechanics; Books; Injuries; Lifting equipment; Neck; Pediatrics; Protection; Vehicle crash testing;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.802581
