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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | Pedestrian survival | | Authors | Ryan GA, McLean AJ | | Year | 1966 | | Type | Conference Paper | | Abstract | Cases of pedestrian and automobile collisions collected in an on-the-spot survey of accidents in Adelaide are analysed. It is shown that cars having a conventional frontal shape have a different injury potential from cars having a sloping front, e.g., Volkswagen. The directions of impact forces arc related to the sites and patterns of fracture of the ribs, pelvis, femur. It is shown how the shapes of fractures of the shaft of the tibia can be used to determine the orientation of the pedestrian relative to the car at the time of impact.
A two-man team, consisting of a physician (G.A. Ryan) and an engineer (A. J. McLean), conducted an on-the-spot survey of injury-producing traffic accidents in the metropolitan area of Adelaide (Population 600.000). An injury-producing traffic accident was defined as one to which an ambulance was called. Four hundred eight accidents were attended between the hours of 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. over two periods, totalling 17 months, in 1963 and 1964. This represents a 12.3% sample of all such accidents which occurred in these periods. | | Publisher | Wayne State University Press | | Publisher City | Detroit | | Conference Name | Ninth STAPP car crash conference | | Conference Abbreviation | STAPP | | Conference Location | Minneapolis, USA | | Conference Date | 20-21 October 1965 | | Page Range | 321-332 | | Page Count | 13 | | Notes | Available for purchase from SAE
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| Reference | | Ryan GA, McLean AJ (1966). Pedestrian survival. Ninth STAPP car crash conference, (pp. 321-332). Detroit: Wayne State University Press. |
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