Side Impact Safety: Assessment of High Speed Advanced European Mobile Deformable Barrier (AE-MDB) Test and WorldSID with ‘RibEye’ (original) (raw)
In 2009, 2,222 people were killed and 24,690 were seriously injured in road traffic accidents in Great Britain (GB). About half the people killed were car occupants and just over one third of these were killed in side impacts. Over the past ten years, since the introduction of the side impact regulation in Europe, much research work has been performed internationally to develop new and modified test procedures to improve the level of occupant protection offered by vehicles in side impacts. In Europe, this research has been co-ordinated by the European Enhanced Vehicle safety Committee (EEVC) and focused on contributing to the development of WorldSID and three test procedures. These are an Advanced European Deformable Barrier (AE-MDB) test, a pole test and an interior headform test. This paper describes work performed by TRL on behalf of the UK Department for Transport to inform UK policy regarding side impact protection and provide the UK contribution to EEVC activities. The work de...
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