Citation

Arbelaez RA, Nolan JM, Dakin GJ, Lund AK. Stapp Car Crash J. 2002; 46: 397-415.

Affiliation

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Society of Automotive Engineers SAE)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17096234

Abstract

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has recently developed and evaluated a new side impact barrier to represent the front profile of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles for a new consumer information program. In the development of this program, two dummies were considered for assessing driver injury risk in side-struck vehicles: EuroSID-2 (50th percentile male dummy) and SID-IIs (5th percentile female dummy). The purpose of this study was to compare injury responses and kinematics for these two dummies in side impact crash tests. The findings suggest that SID-IIs will be more effective in driving relevant improvements in side impact crash protection.

Language: en