Table 2

Numbers and percentages of injuries of hospitalised traffic victims across different body regions for both scenarios and by single vehicle or multiple vehicle crashes

Affected body regionDriversPassengersSlow modes
BaseFuelBaseFuelBaseFuel
SVCMVCSVCMVCSVCMVCSVCMVCSVCMVCSVCMVC
Head22034119730568123721273942439434
29.29% 28.75% 29.19% 28.69% 35.23% 29.71% 35.64% 29.26% 24.22% 35.42% 24.22% 35.37%
Face3447304311141215834836
4.53% 3.96% 4.44% 4.05% 5.70% 3.38% 5.94% 3.46% 4.97% 2.84% 4.97% 2.93%
Spine611155410318521856550550
8.12% 9.70% 8.00% 9.69% 9.33% 12.56% 8.91% 12.90% 3.11% 4.18% 3.11% 4.07%
Thorax17727016023935102371084716246167
23.57% 22.77% 23.70% 22.48% 18.13% 24.64% 18.32% 24.88% 29.19% 13.53% 28.57% 13.61%
Lower extremities119210108191214322453935740364
15.85% 17.71% 16.00% 17.97% 10.88% 10.39% 10.89% 10.37% 24.22% 29.82% 24.84% 29.67%
Minor injuries140203126182408041832317023176
18.64% 17.12% 18.67% 17.12% 20.73% 19.32% 20.30% 19.12% 14.29% 14.20% 14.29% 14.34%
  • The reported values are average values from 10 000 Monte Carlo iterations. The injury distribution for the bus category (n=11) is available on request. Percentages represent the proportions of injury sites within a crash type.

  • MVC, multiple vehicle collision; SVC, single vehicle collision.