What Are Whiplash Associated Disorders?

In the event of a vehicle rear-end collision, the injury to the neck caused by the lashes in the neck is called whipping.

Whipping test

With the development of the automobile industry, the passive safety performance of automobiles has also been continuously improved. From the initial protection of the safety of occupants in the car, it has gradually transformed into reducing injuries. In the safety test, there are different forms of frontal collisions and side collisions to simulate various types of traffic accidents in the real world, but one type of accident has been ignored, that is, low-speed rear collisions. This type of accidents have a high incidence. , But was not valued because of the low casualties. Accident statistics in recent years indicate that the incidence of whipping (whiplash) injuries is extremely high in low-speed post-collisions, and this type of injury has brought an increasingly serious burden on the injured individual and society.

Whiplash injury refers to the collision acceleration and the head of the driver and occupant of the crashed vehicle in a rear-end collision accident.

Test method for whipping risk according to EURO-NCAP:

The test did not use the entire vehicle collision, but used the seat structure of the test vehicle and installed it on the chute. The test dummy sat on the seat in the standard position and passed the test with known rear-end acceleration-time data. Platform simulation, and finally use the data from the neck sensor to determine the risk of whipping.