Airbag Injuries - Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Airbag Injuries: Causation & Federal Regulations

CHAPTER 1. AIRBAG-RELATED INJURIES

1.0 Dubious Airbag Non-Deployment Cases

1.1 Front airbags

1.2 Side and curtain airbags

1.3 No front bumper damage

1.4 Rear passenger involvement

1.5 Steering wheel impalement

1.6 Multiple front end impact scenarios

2.0 Airbag Injuries Related to Deployment

2.1 Eye injuries

2.2 Arm injuries

2.3 Facial burns

2.4 Brain injuries

2.4.1 Absence of facial erythema and unconsciousness

2.4.2 Brainstem laceration

2.4.3 The elderly driver problem

2.5 Neck injuries

2.6 Heart trauma

2.7 Lung injuries, bronchial irritation and asthma

2.8 Ear injuries

2.9 Side airbag injuries to children

2.10 Airbag folding pattern injuries and deployment velocity

3.0 Airbag Injuries Related to Non-Deployment

3.1 Cervical hyperflexion injuries

3.2 Head blunt force injuries and the Head Injury Criterion

3.2.1 Head impacts into the steering wheel by belted drivers

3.2.2 Head impacts into the A pillar with lacerations

3.2.3 Head impacts into the windshield header

3.2.4 Knee, thigh and hip injuries

3.3 Thoracic and Lumbar Injuries

CHAPTER 2. INJURY MITIGATION & FEDERAL REGULATIONS

1.0 Government Injury Mitigation Standards

2.0 Frontal Impacts

2.1 NCAP tests

3.0 Front Impact Test Speeds and Injury Mitigation

3.1 Neck injury standards

4.0 Offset Frontal Crash Tests

4.1 New impact speeds under FMVSS 208

5.0 FMVSS 214 Side Impact Testing

5.1 Side impact injury mitigation

5.2 FMVSS 208 side impact requirements

5.3 FMVSS 201 Side impact requirements

5.4 LINCAP tests

6.0 Rollover Tests Under FMVSS 208

7.0 Sizes and Specifications of Crash Test Dummies

CHAPTER 3. WHEN SHOULD AN AIRBAG DEPLOY?

1.0 Injury Mitigationj as a Standard for Airbag Deployment

1.1 The 12 mile per hour injury mitigation standard

1.2 Facial fracture standard

1.3 Use of black box data to determine occupant impact speed

1.4 Alternate techniques for determining Delta V and the need for airbag deployment

APPENDIX: FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARDS

FMVSS 201 - Occupant protection in interior impact

FMVSS 203 - Impact protection for the driver from the steering control system

FMVSS 204 - Steering control rearward displacement

FMVSS 208 - Occupant crash protection

FMVSS 214 - Side impact protection

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