Child In Car Safety Research Project

A Strong Partnership
The Consortium includes a good geographical representation within Europe, relying on the skill of experts in child protection -and more generally in safety- and a balance between Research, Industry, Regulation and Testing Institutes.

Expected impact
The main goal of CHILD is to improve the child safety in road accidents. CHILD will enable the investigation of injury mechanisms and tolerances for different ages of children and to establish injury criteria and risk curves.

Project summary
CHILD aims towards a more comprehensive understanding of the injury mechanisms experienced by children of different ages in road accidents, through innovative tools and methods, in order to contribute to revised or improved standards and more efficient design of child restraint systems. The CHILD project started in September 2002 and will take place over 3 years.

Previous Study
The CREST project was to develop new test procedures to determine the effectiveness of child restraint systems for cars using instrumented child dummies. This objective were expressed in three items :
- to determine the physical parameters corresponding to various child injury mechanisms,
- to prescribe limits under which injuries can be avoided,
- to develop new test procedures for determining the effectiveness of child restraining systems for cars, using instrumented dummies.