1. Child pedestrian anthropometry: evaluation of potential impact points during a crash
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Christophe Bartoli, Christian Brunet, Thierry Serre, Amandine Christia-Lotter, Georges Leonetti, Loïc Lalys, Laboratoire de Biomécanique Appliquée (LBA UMR T24), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université Gustave Eiffel, Dynamique de l'évolution humaine : individus, populations, espèces [Paris] (DEHIPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Médecine légale [Hôpital de la Timone - APHM], and Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)
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Male ,VEHICULE ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Engineering ,Percentile ,Adolescent ,[SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology ,Poison control ,Human Factors and Ergonomics ,Crash ,Walking ,Pedestrian ,PIETON ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,automotive ,Risk Factors ,0502 economics and business ,medicine ,Forensic engineering ,Craniocerebral Trauma ,Humans ,MESURE ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Child ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Sport utility vehicle ,050210 logistics & transportation ,CORPS HUMAIN ,automotive.automotive_class ,Anthropometry ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Accidents, Traffic ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Chin ,Motor Vehicles ,ENFANT ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,CHOC ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,France ,business ,human activities - Abstract
International audience; This paper highlights potential impact points of a child pedestrian during a crash with a front end of a vehicle. Child anthropometry is defined for ages between 3 and 15 years. It is based on the measurement of 7 different segment body heights (knee, femur, pelvis, shoulder, neck, chin, vertex) performed on about 2000 French children. For each dimension, the 5th, 50th and 95th percentile values are reported and the corresponding linear regression lines are given. Then, these heights are confronted with three different vehicle shapes corresponding to a passenger car, a sport utility vehicle and a light truck in order to identify impact points. In particular, it is shown that the thigh is directly hit by the bumper for children above 12 years old whereas head impacts principally the hood. Influences of the child anthropometry on the pedestrian trajectory and comparison with tests procedure in regulation are also discussed. child, anthropometry, pedestrian, vehicle shape, accident
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- 2010