Pedestrian protection

The safety of vulnerable road users ranks high on the political agenda. Accident numbers prove the need of vehicle related measures. It is essential to balance the calculated safety effect regarding which measure has to be applied. More and more active safety can have positive effects. These effects have to be quantified, assessed and finally checked against the accidents occurrence.

Active and passive safety

Around 600 pedestrians a year die on the roads in Germany, and over 8,000 suffer serious injuries. In a joint research project with RWTH Aachen University, the UDV (German Insurers Accident Research) investigated technical means of mitigating the consequences of accidents for pedestrians hit by...

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Rear impacts between cars and pedestrians

Die Erkenntnisse der UDV zeigen, dass es außer der Frontallkollision noch weitere Unfallmuster gibt, denen man Aufmerksamkeit schenken sollte, zumal es bereits technische Maßnahmen gibt, die diese Unfallmuster adressieren könnten.

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