[SystemSafety] Children as a causal factor in major accidents

[Mike Ellims]

Children are sometimes treated as a special case in some automotive safety analysis e.g. what happens if a child is playing in a car and they do X? This is driven from practical experience from incidents with items such as power windows and automatic transmissions (e.g. taking a vehicle out of Park) where deaths have occurred.

 

In vehicle crash testing use of child, and baby crash test dummies is standard.

 

From: systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of DREW Rae
Sent: 01 October 2014 09:43
To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: [SystemSafety] Children as a causal factor in major accidents

 

Hi folks,

I've had an interesting request for a DisasterCast episode focussing on children and major accidents. 

1) Can anyone suggest a major accident where the presence or behavior of children have been a causal factor? I'm looking specifically for where they increased or determined the likelihood of the accident, not just accidents with large numbers of children. 

2) Can anyone suggest (in public-domain terms) ways children have had to be treated as a special case in safety analysis?

Off the top of my head I can think of children as a special group in population dose-response modelling for chemical releases, and the debate about child restraints in aircraft.

[Didn't want to send a separate email to the whole list, but a public thank you to John and Nancy for help with my last request re Columbia]. 

Drew




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