Development of a Frontal Small Overlap Crashworthiness Evaluation Test.

Conclusions: When assessing overall crashworthiness (based on injury measures, structural deformation, and occupant kinematics), one vehicle had superior performance in each crash configuration. This was confirmation that the countermeasures benefiting performance in a single small overlap test also will provide a benefit in other crash configurations. Based on these test results, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has developed a small overlap crashworthiness evaluation with the following characteristics: a rigid flat barrier with a 150-mm corner radius, 25 percent overlap, 64 km/h test speed, and a Hybrid III midsize male driver dummy.
PMID: 23906021 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - August 5, 2013 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sherwood CP, Mueller BC, Nolan JM, Zuby DS, Lund AK Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research