@article{ref1,
title="Injury risk functions for frontal oblique collisions",
journal="Traffic injury prevention",
year="2018",
author="Andricevic, Nino and Junge, Mirko and Krampe, Jonas",
volume="19",
number="5",
pages="518-522",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Construction of Injury risk functions (IRF) for front row occupants in oblique frontal crashes and a comparison to IRF of non-oblique frontal crashes from the same dataset. <br><br>METHOD: Crashes of modern vehicles from the GIDAS (German In-depth Accident Study) were used as the basis for the construction of a logistic injury risk model. Static deformation, measured via displaced voxels on the post-crash vehicles, was used to calculate the energy dissipated in the crash. This measure of accident severity was termed &quot;objective equivalent speed&quot; (oEES) as it does not depend on the accident reconstruction and thus eliminates reconstruction biases like impact direction and vehicle model year. Imputation from property-damage cases was used to describe underrepresented low-severity crashes - a known shortcoming of GIDAS. Binary logistic regression was used to relate the stimuli (oEES) to the binary outcome variable (injured or not injured). <br><br>RESULTS: IRF for the oblique frontal impact and non-oblique frontal impact were computed for the MAIS 2+ and MAIS 3+ levels for adults (18-64 years). For a given stimulus, the probability of injury for a belted driver was higher in oblique crashes than in non-oblique frontal crashes. For the 25% injury risk at MAIS 2+ level, the corresponding stimulus for oblique crashes was 40░km/h but 64░km/h for non-oblique frontal crashes. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The risk of obtaining MAIS2+-injuries is significantly higher in oblique crashes than in non-oblique crashes. In the real-world, most of the MAIS2+ injuries occur in an oEES range from 30░km/h to 60░km/h.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1538-9588",
doi="10.1080/15389588.2018.1442926",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2018.1442926"
}