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Saving Precious Lives

Heather Allen
Programme Director Sustainable Transport TRL, UK

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Decade of Ac*on for Road Safety 2011-2020

Transport Research Laboratory

Development of FIAF/WHO/UN/GRSP Good Prac*se road safety manuals Member UNRSC, GRSP

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Crea*ng a Safe System

A Shared Responsibility
Government Road Users Road Authorities

Police

NGOs

Emergency Services

Vehicle Industry

Schools
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Private Companies

Media

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PERS & CERS & FERS

PERS Pedestrian Environment Review System CERS Cycling Environment Review System FERS Freight Environment Review System

Environment is reviewed from the end users perspec*ve Design end users are vulnerable people on foot or on a bike! Considers links and interchanges to other transport modes, such as bus and rail

Pedestrians Permeable Accessible & safe Coherent Clean & attractive

Cyclists Convenient Accessible & safe Comfortable Maintained

How PERS works modular approach

Links

Crossings

Routes

Public transport stops

Interchange space

Public spaces

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PERS On street evalua*on

Spring 2009: Before

Problems: very long crossing wide turning circle allows vehicles to turn at high speed not at grade

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Spring 2010: ANer

Improvements: Footway build outs reduce crossing length Tighter corners reduce vehicle speed Raised table design- now at grade

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Ratemystreet.co.uk

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Even a bit broken is broken!

What happens to an unrestrained child in a crash?

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Reducing Injuries

Late 1970s Children killed or seriously injured : 1600 per year in UK

Present Children killed or seriously injured: 400 per year in UK

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Current European Regula\on

Peak Values / Times
22.95 g -2.02 g
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60.65 ms 115.65 ms

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Sled Acceleration

Time - ms

C049I01: R44 Front: Taizhou Ganen: P3: Gp 1: 48.71km/h: 21/05/2012

Test Speed

Frontal Impact: 50 km/h Rear Impact: 30 km/h Horizontal: 550 mm Ver\cal: 800mm (840mm for P10)

Maximum head excursion (Groups I, II, III)

Maximum chest decelera\on

Resultant (X,Y & Z): 55 g ver\cal: 30 g

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Dierence?

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Check it ts
TRL have conducted a public campaign in the UK called Check it ts to check how the public are using CRS.

10% were found not to be appropriate i.e. child too big or too heavy 9% were not compa\ble with the vehicle 27% had some sort of misuse rela\ng to the installa\on of the child into the child seat 36% had some sort of misuse rela\ng to the installa\on of the child restraint in the vehicle
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hop://www.trl.co.uk/transport_research_development/improving_safety/user_safety_/ child_safety_centre/counterfeit_child_car_seats_put_young_lives_at_risk.htm hop://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxXAk7t0IfI&list=LLX5c1HgfBrBAfZopxwilfsw&feature=mh_lolz

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European Child Restraint Timeline

Reg.44-01 1982 Reg.44-02 1986 Reg.44-03 1995 Reg.44-04 2005 New Reg (I Size)

70s

80s

90s

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Present

Rear seat belts compulsory 1989

Child seats compulsory in Europe 2006

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China is the largest producer of CRS

Currently, around 90% of children travelling in vehicles in China are NOT restrained in a suitable child restraint system and every year more than 18,000 children under the age of 14 die as a result of a road trac accident. A new compulsory regula*on for child restraint systems to be introduced and implemented soon TRL and IQTC (Guangdong Inspec*on and Quaran*ne Technology Center) signed an MOU to develop a vehicle safety laboratory in China

Hand in hand with be,er consumer informa4on

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To summarise - we can con*nue to reduce fatali*es and serious injury to some of our most

Becer regula*on Developing crash t est technology Improving public understanding Tools e.g. hcp://www.grsproadsafety.org/ sites/grsp.drupalgardens.com/les/Seat

precious passengers.

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TRL Child Safety Centre

Type Approval Conformity of Produc\on Experimental tes\ng and consultancy TRL Ra\ng Scheme tes\ng and usability Future regula\ons and dummy development

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Thank you Hallen@trl.co.uk

Do You Have Any Ques*ons?

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