CHARACTERISTICS OF INJURIES TO DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS IN THE CABIN OF B-CLASS CARS IN AN ANGLE COLLISION

Abstract

The article presents the features of damage to the driver and passenger in the cabin of a B-class car during an angle collision.
 The cases of road accidents from 2008 to 2021 in the Zhytomyr, Rivne, and Volyn regions of Ukraine were analyzed. Cases of angle (right and left) collisions with fatal consequences for the driver and the passenger in the front seat of B-class cars were considered in automobile trauma. General scientific and special methods were used: system-structural analysis, observation, comparison, description. In addition, a forensic examination of the injuries was carried out. Statistical analysis included primary processing of data by methods of descriptive statistics and testing of the null hypothesis by the method of multifactorial analysis.
 The results. A frequency analysis of received injuries was carried out. In the case of a left side collision in the passenger compartment of a B-class car, the drivers suffered injuries to the front of the body, often injuries to the soft tissues of the left leg. It is noteworthy that the soft tissues of the right hand were not injured in the left side collision. Passengers of B-class cars had frontal torso injuries in the case of a left angle collision, as did the drivers. Also common patterns were the absence of damage to the body from behind, rupture of the symphysis, and pelvic fractures on both sides.
 Conclusion. In the case of fatal injury in the cabin of B-class cars in the case of a right-side collision, the drivers had numerous injuries to the back and front of the body. The injuries in the car interior differed in the presence of soft tissue damage to all four limbs, but bone fractures of both the upper and lower limbs were localized exclusively on the right. As with the left and right lateral impact, there was no fracture of the pelvic bones on both the left and the right side with preservation of the integrity of the pubic symphysis.
 For drivers with fatal injuries in the cabin of B-class cars in the case of a right-side collision, multiple injuries of the thoracic and abdominal organs and the retroperitoneal space were observed: injuries to the right and left kidneys, lacerations of the liver, lacerations of the right and left lungs.