Efficacy of Seat Mounted Thoracic Side Airbags in the German Vehicle Fleet.

CONCLUSION: The reduction in occupant HFN injury risk associated with the coupled tSAB and curtain airbag may be attributable to its ability to provide coverage over previously-causing mechanism of injury. Yet, the sole presence of the tSAB showed no ability to provide additional benefit for the occupant's thoracic region. Future work should identify mechanisms of injury in the tSAB cases and attempt to quantify improvements in the vehicle ability to resist intrusion. PMID: 28557622 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research