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The influence of European air bags on crash injury outcomes

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posted on 2009-08-19, 14:49 authored by James Lenard, Richard FramptonRichard Frampton, Pete Thomas
The UK Co-operative Crash Injury Study currently includes data on 205 seat belted drivers from frontal impacts in which an air bag deployed; of these, 142 suffered some degree of injury. To detect the influence of frontal air bags, the distribution of injury over the body regions of these drivers was compared to that of a much larger group from vehicles without air bags. The injured drivers from air bag vehicles showed relatively fewer head injuries, especially fractures, and relatively more arm injuries. No abnormal types of injury or circumstances of injury were identified for the air bag group. Air bags generally appear to deploy at vehicle impact severities that pose a statistical risk of significant head injury, and also in a proportion of lower severity impacts. As a group, the air bag equipped vehicles were larger, more modern, and more often fitted with seat belt pretensioners than the non air bag vehicles, with an older and more male driving population.

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LENARD, J., FRAMPTON, R. and THOMAS, P., 1998. The influence of European air bags on crash injury outcomes. IN: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, 31st May-4th June, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Paper Number 98-S5-O-01

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1998

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