The structure was the same as the new KWID without airbags but a high compression in
the dummy chest area explains the low score.»
Not exact matches
Measures recorded on the
dummy's head, neck, and
chest indicate low risk of serious injury in these
areas of the body, but the poorly controlled movement of the
dummy during the impact may have contributed to high forces on its right leg.
Much of the force on the
dummy was deflected to parts of the
dummy which do not reflect a real body and protection of the
chest area was penalised.
In the dynamic impact tests, the L200 provided good protection to the child
dummies in all
areas except the
chest, with both
dummies showing marginally elevated
chest decelerations.
In the full width rigid barrier test, protection of the driver
dummy was good for all critical body
areas while, for the rear passenger, protection of the neck was adequate and that of the
chest was marginal.
For the 6 year
dummy, protection of the
chest was rated as marginal and the of other critical
areas as good or adequate.
In the full - width rigid barrier test, protection of the driver
dummy was good for all critical body
areas and, for the rear passenger
dummy, it was good apart from the
chest, protection of which was adequate.
Nearly all injury measures on heads,
chests, and other body
areas of the test
dummies were low.
For the 6 year
dummy, protection of the
chest was rated as marginal and that of other critical body
areas was good.
In the full - width rigid barrier test, protection of the
dummies was good for all critical body
areas except the
chest, protection of which was adequate for the driver and marginal for the rear passenger.
The rear passenger
dummy had a marginal level of
chest protection but all other critical body
areas were well protected.
Protection of the
chest of the rear passenger
dummy was marginal, and that of other body
areas was good.
In the full width rigid barrier test, protection of the driver
dummy was good for all body
areas apart from the
chest, which was adequately protected.
Readings of
chest compression in the rear passenger
dummy indicated marginal protection for this body
area, with good protection of all others.