Citation

De coo PJA, Adalian C. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 2000; 2000: 48-51.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

EEVC Working Group 14 is investigating the effect of fixing energy absorbing front underrun protection systems to trucks instead of rigid devices in order to reduce the injury severity to car occupants in car-to-truck frontal collisions. Three car-to-truck crash tests with cars from different mass groups at a speed of 75 kph were carried out. The results are compared with the results from identical tests carried out earlier with cars at a speed of 56 kph running into a truck with a rigid front underrun protection device. It appears that the deceleration pulses of identical cars in the different tests show almost identical shapes and peak levels. Having almost identical deceleration pulses, identical injury results for the car occupants would have been expected. However, the injury results are not all directly comparable. The deviating signals can be explained. Based on the results of the tests it can be concluded that the positive effect of an eaFUP is not unambiguously proved yet.