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Biomechanics of Rollover Accidents

Rollover motor vehicle accidents are frequent and severe in terms of injury potential for vehicle occupants. Occupants on the near-side of a roll frequently have head, extremity, and thorax injuries, while serious spinal injuries are common for occupants on the far-side of a roll. Unbelted occupants are five times more likely to suffer serious and fatal injuries in rollover accidents and ejected occupants are seven times more likely to suffer serious and fatal injuries as compared to non-ejected occupants. The following list summarizes recently published research in the area of rollover injury mechanisms:

1. Yuanzhi Hu, Clive E. Neal-Sturgess, A.M. Hassan, Rong Guo
   Modelling the Effects of Seat Belts on Occupant Kinematics and Injury Risk in the Rollover of a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV)
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit MI, USA.
2. Robert W. McCoy, Clifford C. Chou
   A Study of Kinematics of Occupants Restrained with Seat Belt Systems in Component Rollover Tests
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit MI, USA.
3. Blake Ashby, William Lai, Michael Carhart, William Newberry, Brian Weaver, Catherine Corrigan
   Compressive Neck Preloading During the Airborne Phase of Vehicle Rollover
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit MI, USA.
4. Orion P. Keifer, Wesley Richardson, Peter Layson, Bradley Reckamp, Thomas Heilmann
   Vehicle Linear and Rotational Acceleration, Velocity and Displacement during Staged Rollover Collisions
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit, MI, USA.
5. Ryuuji Ootani, Chinmoy Pal
   Effective Numerical Simulation Tool for Real-World Rollover Accidents by Combining PC-Crash and FEA
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit, MI, USA.
6. D. Claire Gloeckner, Robert T. Bove, Jeffrey Croteau, Catherine Ford Corrigan, Tara L.A. Moore
   Timing of Head-To-Vehicle Perimeter Contacts in Rollovers
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit, MI, USA.
7. Michael B. James, Ronald P. Nordhagen, Dennis C. Schneider, Sung-Woo Koh
   Occupant Injury in Rollover Crashes: A Reexamination of Malibu II
   Proceedings of SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 2007, Detroit, MI, USA.
8. Saari A, Itshayek E, Nelson TS, Morley PL, Cripton PA
   Spinal Cord Deformation During Injury of the Cervical Spine in Head-First Impact
   Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impacts, September 2006, Madrid, Spain