Experimental studies were conducted to demonstrate the differences in the protective effectiveness of a child safety seat and a booster seat during a passenger car accident. The effectiveness analysis was focused on children aged approximately 3 years in the back seat of a car. The dynamic tests performed correspond to a frontal collision of a car with an obstacle. An analysis was made of the impact of the booster seat and the child safety seat on the kinematics of the child’s body movement, extreme displacements, and head accelerations.
Analysis of the experiment’s progress allows for the assessment of the impact of the child safety devices used on the potential for head injuries during frontal collisions. The studies do not provide a ready-made answer on how to most effectively protect a child during an accident, but they do point to important aspects of the operation of the described protective devices.
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Source: Logistyka Magazine