A study of pedestrian and bicyclist exposure to head injury in passenger car collisions based on accident data and simulations

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1749-1759

  Peng, Yong ^a,b,e   Chen, Yong ^a   Yang, Jikuang ^a,c   Otte, Dietmar ^d   Willinger, Remy ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^e State Key Laboratory of Vehicle NVH and Safety Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Accident reconstruction; Comparison study; Head kinematics and injury; Pedestrian and bicyclist

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; ACCIDENT DATA; ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION; CAR COLLISIONS; COMPARISON STUDY; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT TIME; GERMANY; HEAD INJURIES; HEAD KINEMATICS AND INJURY; HIGH FREQUENCY; IMPACT SPEED; IMPACT VELOCITIES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INJURY PATTERN; INJURY RISK; LINEAR ACCELERATIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; PC CRASHES; PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST; PEDESTRIAN INJURIES; SECONDARY IMPACTS; VEHICLE IMPACT; VEHICLE SPEED;

AUTOMOBILES; FOOTBRIDGES; KINEMATICS; LOGISTICS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISKS; VEHICLES;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84863544945     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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