Title: THE COSTS OF INJURIES PREDICTED FROM ANCAP CRASH TESTS
Abstract: The Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) carries out crash testing to provide consumers with objective information on the safety performance of cars. The aim of this project was to demonstrate the effect of changes in vehicle design on the costs of injuries predicted by ANCAP crash tests. A database of injury costs by body region and injury severity level was developed using insurance company claims data. The probability of injury at each injury severity level was estimated from measurements obtained from the Hybrid III dummies used in the tests. The costs of the predicted head, chest and upper and lower leg injury were summed using an allocation routine, for each of the driver and passenger, to obtain the total injury cost for each vehicle. For large and small cars tested at least twice between 1992 and 1997, there was generally a substantial reduction in injury cost, usually, but not always, associated with the introduction of an airbag on the driver's side. Offset tests were associated with lower overall costs than frontal tests. Injury costs for four wheel drive vehicles, utilities and passenger vans were higher than for passenger cars. (a)
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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