Injury severity of restrained front seat occupants in car-to-car side impacts.
Accid Anal Prev
; 27(1): 105-10, 1995 Feb.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7718071
ABSTRACT
The influence of a number of factors, including age and particularly seating position, on the injury severity of restrained occupants was examined for 41 front-seat occupants seated adjacent to the impact (near side) and 38 sitting opposite the impacted side (far side) in car-to-car side collisions (center of impact front door and B-pillar). Above an energy equivalent speed of 40 km/h all near-side occupants and about half of the far-side occupants sustained severe injuries. A logistic regression analysis showed that within range of 30-60 km/h (delta v 20-60 km/h) the probability of severe injuries increased dramatically from approximately 20% to more than 90%; in these cases, far-side occupants had the same injury probability as near-side occupants only when the speed was 10 km/h higher. The main cause of death for 27 occupants seated on both sides was polytrauma, this was accompanied in two-thirds of the cases by serious head injuries. The second most frequent cause of death was head injury.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cintos de Segurança
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Ferimentos e Lesões
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Acidentes de Trânsito
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Accid Anal Prev
Ano de publicação:
1995
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Alemanha