Project

Rear seat safety - focusing occupants from 3 years to 5th percentile female in frontal to side impacts, part 2

Period
1 January 2013–1 January 2017
Project manager
Lotta Jakobsson

This project is a continuation of a prior FFI project, which has provided state-of-art research results exploring the complete context of rear seat protection, also highlighting the importance of pre-crash posture and behavior. Part 2 follows on the real world safety development addressing evaluation of protection beyond standard crash testing scenarios in frontal and side impact conditions and will provide a competence sharing platform to the involved partners in the field of child safety and rear seat safety, and occupant safety, biomechanics, and accident analysis in general. It will evaluate existing child occupant computational models and recent child crash test dummies and use these tools to study effect of restraint configurations, also taking pre-crash conditions into account, resulting in enhanced knowledge on rear seat protection principles and updated test methods. The results will enable the reduction of injuries to children and help maintaining Sweden as a hub for child safety research, contributing to setting the global agenda.

Website
http://www.chalmers.se/safer/EN/projects/crash-safety/associated-projects/rear-…

Short facts

Research area
Human body protection
Financier(s)

FFI

Partners

Volvo Car Corporation, Chalmers, Autoliv

Project type
Project

Related publications

Car Safety for Children Aged 4-12: real world evaluations of long-term injury outcome, head injury causation scenarios, misuse, and pre-crash maneuver kinematics

Child casualties in car crashes have decreased over the years. Nevertheless, occupant safety in rear seats, especially for children 4-12 years old, needs further attention because motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death and long-term health

Authors : Katarina Bohman
Year : 2013

Child Occupant Protection: Latest Knowledge and Future Opportunities - Results of a Workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden

A two day workshop was held in which the first day was composed of presentations on relevant topics. The focus of these presentations was on ´pressing issues in child and adolescent occupant protection´ - including short and long term research, policy and

Authors : Kristy Arbogast, Katarina Bohman, Isabelle Stockman, Lotta Jakobsson
Year : 2013
Published in : 11th International Conference on Protection of Children in Cars, December 2013, Munich

Kinematics of Child Volunteers and Child Anthropomorphic Test Devices During Emergency Braking Events in Real Car Environment

Objectives: The objective of this study was to present, compare, and discuss the kinematic response of children and child anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) during emergency braking events in different restraint configurations in a passenger vehicle

Authors : Isabelle Stockman, Katarina Bohman, Lotta Jakobsson, Karin Brolin
Year : 2013
Published in : Traffic Injury Prevention, 14 (1), pp. 92-102

Kinematics and shoulder belt position of child anthropomorphic test devices during steering maneuvers

Objectives: The objective of this study was to quantify and compare the kinematics and shoulder belt position of child anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) during emergency steering maneuvers. Furthermore, the ATDs were compared to the results from child

Authors : Isabelle Stockman, Katarina Bohman, Lotta Jakobsson
Year : 2013
Published in : Traffic Injury Prevention, 14 (8), pp. 797-806

Older Children's Sitting Postures, Behaviour and Comfort Experience during Ride - A Comparison between an Integrated Booster Cushion and a High-Back Booster

Sitting postures and comfort experience were analysed from six children aged 7-9 (131-145 cm) seated on an Integrated Booster Cushion (IBC) and a high-back Booster (hbB) during 1 hour on-road drives respectively. Data was collected from video recordings

Authors : Anna‐Lisa Osvalder, Ida Hansson, Isabelle Stockman, Anna Carlsson, Katarina Bohman, Lotta Jakobsson
Year : 2013
Published in : Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI 2013), September 2013, Göteborg

Relative kinematics of the shoulder belt and the torso: Comparison of the Q10 ATD and pediatric human volunteers

Previous studies have raised concerns about the biofidelityof the shoulder belt-torso interaction of the Q10 ATD in frontal impacts in that the belt appears to move close to the neck and offload the chest deflection sensors. This study used the only known

Authors : Kristy M. Arbogast, Caitlin M. Locey, Katarina Bohman, Thomas Seacrist
Year : 2013
Published in : Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI 2013), September 2013, Göteborg

Review of Child Car Occupant Fatalities in Sweden During Six Decades

The development of fatal outcome was reviewed based on crash data including all fatally injured 0–14 year old car occupants in Sweden during 1956–2011 and put in relation to general improvements in vehicle and road safety and implementation of restraint

Authors : Anna Carlsson, Johan Strandroth, Katarina Bohman, Isabelle Stockman, Mats Y. Svensson, Jan Wenäll, Mats Gummesson, Thomas Turbell, Lotta Jakobsson
Year : 2013
Published in : Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI 2013), September 2013, Göteborg

Long-Term Medical Consequences for Child Occupants 0 to 12 years injured in Car Crashes

Objective: There is limited knowledge of the long-term medical consequences for children injured in car crashes. Thus, in the event of injury, the aim of the study was to specify patterns and risks of injuries resulting in permanent medical impairment of

Authors : Katarina Bohman, Helena Stigson, Maria Krafft
Year : 2014
Published in : Traffic Injury Prevention, 15 (4), pp. 370-378