title: An evaluation of the EuroNCAP crash test safety ratings in the real world.
abstract: We investigated whether the rating obtained in the EuroNCAP test procedures correlates with injury protection to vehicle occupants in real crashes using data in the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) database from 1996 to 2005. Multivariate Poisson regression models were developed, using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score by body region as the dependent variable and the EuroNCAP score for that particular body region, seat belt use, mass ratio and Equivalent Test Speed (ETS) as independent variables. Our models identified statistically significant relationships between injury severity and safety belt use, mass ratio and ETS. We could not identify any statistically significant relationships between the EuroNCAP body region scores and real injury outcome except for the protection to pelvis-femur-knee in frontal impacts where scoring "green" is significantly better than scoring "yellow" or "red".
authors.affiliation: European Center for Injury Prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona, Spain.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segui-Gomez
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Lopez-Valdes
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Frampton
mesh_terms: D015998:Abbreviated Injury Scale; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017278:Air Bags / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001336:Automobiles / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016730:Program Development; D012449:Safety / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain; D006113:United Kingdom