What's interesting about rollover crashes is they actually take a much longer
period of time
Frontal crash site impact on the road might be over in one hundred milliseconds
A rollover crash could take 10 or 15 seconds in general
Your body is being drawn up toward the roof. You're upside down
or you're on your side or you're at an angle
and when you get down it's going to be a severe severe impact
This is the Center for Applied Biomechanics and here we apply
the theories in mechanical engineering through the human body
to describe how injury occurs in traumatic events
Rollover crashes are about 2 percent of all automobile crashes on the rode
but account for about one-third
of the vehicle occupant fatalities
Rollover is a major public health problem
Currently the only crash test used by
the federal government to assess a rollover crash worthiness
is a roof crush test. And what we're doing is trying to come up with a dynamic
What we're doing is trying to come up with a dynamic crash test that
actually rolls the vehicle and has it impact the ground the same way
it would in a real rollover crash
And if it rolls once, it'll be this way, but if it rolls a second time
you'll see the scratches over top that were turned on some funny angle
So we're exploring a lot of questions related to rollover crashes
but one of the things that we're working on is
how biofidelic or how human-like is a crash dummie in a rollover
What I'm trying to do here is to improve the current
crash dummies to more accurately emulate how the human body
responds in a rollover crash
Our goal is to supply information to the community
we want to learn how to protect occupants in rollover crashes
if we can get that information out to the manufacturer's they could use that
information to design environment
so that when you are in a rollover crash you have the least chance to sustaining
a serious injury or dying