Citation

Kriston A, Broggi D, Re F, Minarini F, Bonato C. 27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV); April 3-6, 2023; Abstract #: 23-0277-O, pp. 9p. Washington, DC USA: US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2023 open access.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023 open access, US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

Abstract

27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years

https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000277.pdf

Motorized vehicle crashes represent the highest injury risk for children. Furthermore, new devices and new transportation applications potentially bring new challenges and injury risks. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to analyze the safety performance of seat belt alone, booster seat and belt guide only devices in frontal impact tests under regulatory and realistic conditions. The authors analyzed the kinematics of the dummy, calculated the injury risks and compared it with the metaanalysis of past published crash analysis complemented with the most recent accident data retrieved from the EU CARE database. The authors calculated the risk attributable to the studied restraint solutions and test conditions. Test on belt guide only devices show that they are statistically equivalent to seat belt alone solutions. Therefore, replacing an appropriate booster seat with belt guide only devices potentially increase the number of injured children by 33% (95 confidence interval:16%, 50%). Finally, the authors performed gap analysis to improve the fitness-for-purpose of regulations for future mobility applications.

Language: en