@article{ref1,
title="Driver Stature, Injuries and Airbag Deployments: Analysis of UMTRI Crash Investigations",
journal="Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine",
year="1998",
author="Huelke, Donald F.",
volume="42",
number="",
pages="233-243",
abstract="At the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), 784 crashes involving steering wheel airbag deployments have been investigated in detail (as of 3/1/98). A subset of only the frontal crashes, in which the steering wheel airbag deployed and driver stature was known, was formed (654 drivers). The vast majority of all drivers were lap-shoulder belted. Of these drivers, 70% sustained no injuries or an AIS-1 level injury. In these 654 crashes there were 204 'short' stature drivers, 165 cm or less in height (32% of all drivers). There were 40 of these with injuries at the MAIS-2 level and 15 who survived with an MAIS injury level of 3 or 4. Details of the injury locations and contacts are presented. Data on the taller drivers (450) were similarly tabulated. Of the taller drivers (gt/=168 cm), 74% had a MAIS-0 or 1 level injury. Of taller drivers with the MAIS-3, 4 or 5 injuries, the majority (67%) had such injuries unrelated to the deployment of the airbag. Of all the MAIS-2+ injured drivers, short or tall, 60% had such injuries unrelated to airbag deployments. The lower extremity was the body area most often involved, followed by the brain and upper extremity injuries.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1540-0360",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}