New Partial Overlap Pedestrian Impact Tests

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Main author

Kasanický, G.

Co-Authors

Kohút, P.

Type of media

PDF

Publication type

Lecture

Publication year

2009

Publisher

18. EVU Conference, Hinckley

Citation

Kasanický, G.: New Partial Overlap Pedestrian Impact Tests. 18th EVU Conference, Hinckley (UK) 2009

English, 20 pages, 20 figures, 1 references

So far, literature does not provide any useful relationship between pedestrian throw distance and
impact speed for impacts with partial overlap. This is due to the fact that in such accidents the
pedestrian throw distance depends more on the degree of overlap than on the vehicle impact speed.
There is a wide range of traffic accident types with respect to the degree of overlap between vehicle
and pedestrian – from minimum overlap (for example when the pedestrian is only impacted by the
vehicle’s mirror) to almost full overlap (when one leg of the pedestrian is impacted totally and the
second leg is impacted almost totally).
In order to analyse part of this range, the Institute of Forensic Engineering of the Žilinská University
performed a series of 13 tests, focusing on the pedestrian’s throw distance depending on the vehicle’s
impact speed for a particular case of vehicle-pedestrian overlap: the longitudinal axes of the vehicle
and the pedestrian are parallel and only one leg of the pedestrian is impacted.