and also how well it protects the occupants. and what is unique about this occupant here is that she is a model of an average female. dr linder s dummies are designed specifically to test how well cars protect people from injuries in low impact rear collisions. she s 162cm tall and weighs 62kg. what you can see here is of course the soft part of our body. females are somewhat shorter and lighter than males on average. and then we also have differences in muscle strength, which plays a role in terms of how you respond to a crash. but then in addition, of course, when it comes to the interaction with the seat, we have differences in the shape of the torso and the centre of gravity of our torso and the outline of
so what happens to a woman s body during a crash? shiona mccallum has been to linkoping in sweden to find out. when you think of car crashes, you probably think of something like this. but rear impacts, being hit from behind, are also happening every day on our roads. it might look gentler, but these kinds of collisions can leave people with debilitating injuries like whiplash. crash test dummies are used to test how well car safety features protect people against injury, but not everyone is equally protected. women are three times more likely to suffer whiplash than men if they re in a car that s hit from behind, and although whiplash is not usually fatal, it can cause serious and permanent disabilities. we stopped at a zebra crossing.
on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final stages of developing the first average female crash test dummy. so what happens to a woman s body during a crash? shiona mccallum has been to linkoping in sweden to find out. when you think of car crashes, you probably think of something like this. but rear impacts being hit from behind are also happening every day on our roads. it might look gentler, but these kinds of collisions can leave people with debilitating injuries like whiplash. crash test dummies are used to test how well car safety features protect people against injury, but not everyone is equally protected. women are three times more likely to suffer whiplash than men
you can see here the soft part of our body. females are somewhat shorter and lighter than males on average and then we also have differences in muscle strength, which plays a role in terms of how you respond to a crash. but then when it comes to the interaction with the seat we have differences in the shape of the torso and the centre of gravity of our torso and the outline of our hips and pelvis. the engineers are performing tests on the dummy to see what happens to her in a simulated rear crash. siren so we have just seen the crash test and what we now see on screen?
our hips and pelvis. the engineers are performing tests on the dummy to see what happens to her in a simulated rear crash. so we ve just seen the crash test. what are we now seeing on the screen? you see the relative motion of the torso and the head and the head interacting a bit with the head restraint. and you see that this is a very low severity. it s seven kilometres per hour. that will probably not be a scratch on your car if you re hit in this severity and no damages and so on. but you see the amount of motion that goes on in our body when we are impacted