Rollovers
Occupant Ejection Trajectories in Rollover Crashes: Full-Scale Testing and Real World Cases
A simple two-dimensional particle model was previously developed to calculate occupant ejection trajectories in rollover crashes. Model parameters were optimized using data from a dolly rollover test of a 1998 Ford Expedition in which five unbelted anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) were...
Compressive Neck Injury and Its Relationship to Head Contact & Torso Motion During Vehicle Rollover
Previous literature has shown that serious neck injury can occur during rollover events, even for restrained occupants, when the occupant’s head contacts the vehicle interior during a roof-to-ground impact or contacts the ground directly through an adjacent window opening. Confusion about the...
Trajectory Model of Occupants Ejected in Rollover Crashes
A simple two-dimensional particle model was developed to predict the airborne trajectory, landing point, tumbling distance, and rest position of an occupant ejected in a rollover crash. The ejected occupant was modeled as a projectile that was launched tangentially at a given radius from the...
