Crashworthiness Review

[russellw]

Good evening

In the thread which discussed the 2013 accident statistics the question was raised about the impact of more crash-worthy vehicles in mitigating road fatality rates.

It seemed like a good idea at the time to track down any available statistical data and throw it into a tech document. It's a lot of work as the data set from the couple of recent reports on the subject is huge so instead of putting the analysis into one document it is going to be spread across a few.

The first of these (Vehicle Crashworthiness Part 1 - Injury Risk) deals with injury risk which is loosely defined as the average risk of death or injury (itself defined by the need for hospitalisation) in a crash for all involved in the crash weighted by their relative exposure across the entire statistical data set.

There are some surprising results so let the debate begin.

Cheers
Russ