FEATURES OF PASSIVE SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF VEHICLES BY THE CRITERION – HUMAN INJURY IN ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Abstract

Road safety is influenced by a large number of factors, among the most negative factors are traffic accidents and their consequences. In road accidents, all categories of the population die and are injured, which entails a decrease in the population of the country and the level of health, life expectancy, length of the working period, and the distortion of the age pyramid. Existing methods for evaluating measures to improve passive safety do not fully allow establishing a correspondence between the characteristics of the car’s structural elements that ensure its passive safety and the severity of the consequences in an accident. Purpose – the main criteria for evaluating the design of vehicles in the field of passive safety are determined. Methodology: the article used mathematical and statistical methods of analysis. Results: the most informative parameters for assessing the severity of injury to a person in an accident were determined, the elements of the vehicle interior were divided into groups of injury hazard in an accident. Practical implications: Applied research in the field of post-accident safety of vehicles; carrying out experimental design work aimed at creating new high-tech technologies for the production of vehicle parts.

Keywords

• vehicle safety
• traffic accidents
• road safety
• passive vehicle safety
• injury severity
• vehicle structural safety