The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has initiated a research program concerning occupant protection in motor vehicle rollover crashes. NHTSA is addressing this occupant protection issue from two perspectives: preventing a rollover from occurring and protecting vehicle occupants during a rollover, including reducing the likelihood of ejections. Almost 65 percent of rollover fatalities occur in the 8 percent of rollovers involving either complete or partial ejection for the occupant fatality. Occupant ejections occur either through structural failures, such as door openings, or through window openings. NHTSA is evaluating the potential of improved door latches, side head air bags, and advanced glazing systems (an automotive industry term for transparent glass or plastic areas of vehicle bodies) to reduce occupant ejection. This report summarizes NHTSA's research on advanced glazing to mitigate ejection through window openings.
Ejection Mitigation Using Advanced Glazing, Final Report
2001
70 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Glazing , Safety engineering , Ejection , Occupant protection , Rollover accidents , Research , Impact tests , Tests , Passenger vehicles , Automobile accidents , Windshields , Doors , Windows , Evaluation , Injury prevention , Benefits , Statistical data , Advanced glazing systems
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