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Euro NCAP
Rear Impact (Whiplash)
Launch 26th November 2008
at Thatcham
A Preventable Cost to Society
Welcome
Peter Roberts
Chief Executive
Thatcham
Thatcham’s Vision
Globally, vehicles are repaired safely,
Crash injuries are minimised
and vehicle theft is eradicated.
Thatcham’s Mission
Setting the Standards
Raising the Skills
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Safe Accident Repair: methods
Safe Accident Repair: validation
Safe Accident Repair: quality
Safe Accident Repair: skills
Euro NCAP Member
Hyper G Sled- funded by UK
Insurers
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Why Euro NCAP has launched Rear
Impact Ratings
A preventable cost to the individual
and society
Professor Claes Tingvall,
Chairman of Euro NCAP
Whiplash myth or misery?
Dr Wolfram Hell,
Head of Medical Biochemical Accident
Analysis Unit MBU,
Institute for Forensic Medicine Ludwig
Maximilians University, Munich,
Germany
Whiplash myth or misery ?
injuries from a medical perspective
Dr. Wolfram Hell
LMU Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Institute for Forensic Medicine
Medical-Biomechanical Accident Analysis MBU
Background: Grandfathers of dynamic seat testing:
Dr. Markus Muser ETH-Zürich, Dr. Harald Zellmer Autoliv Germany with HIII, RID3, and BIORID
Estimated societal Costs of CSD Injury
seats approx. 54 CDN$/year)
Canada:
(cost reduction with better
Switzerland:
>2 Billion SFR/year
Great Britain:
600-800 Million Pounds/year
Netherlands:
0.5 Billion Euro/year
Germany:
1-2 Billion Euro/year (IFM-GDV)
Canada:
costs per vehicle- occupant
135 CDN$/year
USA:
10 Billion USD/year (IIHS)
only Rear-end vehicle accidents
Wealthy Countries with high compensation systems show very high economical loss
(Swizerland, Norway, Canada)
Cervical Spine Distorsion Injury
• 60- 80 % of all car claims with personal
injury
• significant problem in industrialized
countries
1968
• no head-restraints
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1988
• standard head restraint
1998
• intelligent seat concepts
IIWPG International Whiplash Prevention Group founded
seat test BioRid 2 for IIWPG
Improved car seat
Low Cost car seat
Injury reduction
• if forces and moments on