TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Driver and right-front passenger restraint system interaction, injury potential, and thoracic injury prediction
JO  - Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
A1  - Kent, Richard W.
A1  - Crandall, Jeffrey Richard
A1  - Bolton, James R.
A1  - Duma, Stefan M.
SP  - 261
EP  - 282
VL  - 44
IS  - 
N2  - Restrained driver and right-front passenger kinematics and injury outcome in frontal collisions are compared using FARS data and human cadaver sled tests. The FARS data indicate that a frontal airbag may provide greater benefit for a passenger than for a driver. The thoracic injuries sustained by passenger subjects restrained by a force-limited, pretensioned belt and airbag are evaluated, and kinematics are compared to driver-side subjects. The injury-predictive ability of existing thoracic injury criteria is evaluated for passenger-side occupants. Driver and passenger kinematic differences are identified and the implications are discussed. The chest acceleration of the passenger-side subjects exhibited a bimodal profile with an initial (and global) maximum before the subject loaded the airbag. A second acceleration peak occurred as the subject loaded both the belt and the airbag. A similarly restrained driver-side subject loaded the belt and airbag concurrently at the time of peak chest acceleration and therefore did not exhibit this bimodal chest acceleration.
LA  - 
SN  - 1540-0360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -