Research Results - Pedestrians

Research Topic 1

Variety of Injured Body Locations

fig 1: »The street accident of the Pedestrian«,
by M. Weinreich, Springer Verlag, 1979, p.2

- Most injured persons have one particular injury - 41,8%
- the most common injury is located at the legs - 16,5%
- second most injury is at the head (isolated skull brain trauma) - 16,2%
- third most injury is the isolated arm fracture - 4%
- one quarter of the persons have combinations of injuries (complex injuries)
- most common injury is here the head- leg- combination - 8,1%

Here you can download the whole PDF (German).



Research Topic 2

Scene of an Accident

»More than one third of the accidents occur in the area of hubs, whether or not on T-junctions, Crossroads or Intersection points«

cf. Dr. Dieter Ellinghaus & qualified engineer Jürgen Steinbrecher, page 22


fig 2: »Pedestrians - a Special Problematic Group of Traffic Participants«, by order of the Uniroyal-Engelbert-Inc., Aachen, By Dr. Dieter Ellinghaus & qualified engineer Jürgen Steinbrecher, IFAPLAN, Köln/Aachen, 1992, p.22

The PDF »Pedestrians« (Download Number 17) contains very good information about the age of injured people, the kind of streets where accidents happen, the location of the accidents (more midtown or extramural), or the different conditions of weather. It is unfortunately in German.


My Conclusion

During my research I realized that one of the major scene of accidents are hubs, which include T-junctions, Crossroads or Intersection points (fig.2). Because of this our group will focus on these situation.
Besides I discovered statistics about the major injured body locations, which will help us to develop different approaches to safe the body of the pedestrian in different accident situations.

Other References:

PDF about Traffic Accidents from the Statistical Federal Agency Germany (German)

Federal Highway Research Institute Germany (German)

Traffic Accident Research of the Insurancies (German)