Two different rollover crash scenarios were simulated with the software Madymo. The vehicle kinematics in the numerical simulation were prescribed by the use of sensor signals of real crash tests. The Madymo 50% Hybrid III dummy model as well as the Madymo human model was applied to these simulations and the model kinematics were analysed and compared. Differences in the kinematics of human and...

CONTEXT Crash fatality and injury rates are higher on rural roadways than other roadway types. Although slow-moving farm vehicles and equipment are risk factors on rural roads, little is known about the characteristics of crashes with farm vehicles/equipment. PURPOSE To describe crashes and injuries for the drivers of farm vehicles/equipment and non-farm vehicles involved in an injury crash. ...

Automobile crashes are the largest cause of death for pregnant females and the leading cause of traumatic fetal injury mortality in the United States. A previously validated MADYMO computer model of a 30-week pregnant occupant was used in this study to investigate the pregnant occupant response in a severe frontal motor vehicle crash. This study presents simulations of 26 different severe car c...

Between March 2004 and June 2007 The Rural and Remote Road Safety Study recorded 164 non-fatal motorcycle crashes in which a rider was seriously injured (hospitalised for 24 hours or more) on North Queensland public roads or lands. 88 of these riders consented to an interview with research staff during which a questionnaire was administered to gather information on crash experience, demographic...

Understanding injury severity patterns in roadway crashes is important not only from the view point of treating crash victims, but also for directing the crash avoidance efforts of traffic safety agencies and motor vehicle manufacturers. The factor that is most discussed in this context is vehicle incompatibility. However, there are other vehicle-, occupant-, and roadway-related factors, too, t...

This paper examines NASS/CDS 1995 to 2001 in order to evaluate rollover crash severity metrics and to recommend additional data elements to assist in determining rollover severity. For belted occupants and unbelted ejected occupants in single vehicle crashes, the number of roof impacts is an appropriate severity indicator. For ejected occupants, the ejection risk generally increases with the nu...

Abstract The effects of a road accident where one vehicle hits its front on the side another are explored. In such cases, impacted vehicle’s is usually significantly deformed, which causes risk serious injury to occupants. An analysis front-to-side collision covers many nonlinear and highly complex processes, especially when it based energy balance. For analysis, model motorcar dummy representi...

This study investigates the relationship between occupant injury and a host of other factors, including traffic and weather conditions present at the time of crash, road design, vehicle type, and occupant characteristics. Crash and traffic-detector data from six Orange County freeways were used in an ordered probit model. Crash outcomes were classified for each occupant, as no injury, non-visib...

objective : to determine the epidemiological characteristics of the road traffic injuries (rtis) in guilan province, northern iran. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study which included all of rtis admitted to medical centers of guilan province (northern iran) during 2012. icd-10 was used as diagnostic criteria. demographic variables also injury circumstance and in hospital variables s...

Vehicle change in velocity, often referred to as delta-V, is a widely used measure of crash severity. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) uses the WinSMASH computer code to estimate delta-V in several of its in-depth crash databases. This study examined the accuracy of WinSMASH longitudinal delta-V estimates in 140 rear crashes by comparison with direct measurements of de...