Validation of a dynamic rollover test device

Abstract

The Jordan Rollover System (JRS) is a device designed, with minimal constraints, to simulate a dynamic trip-over rollover crash. It has been shown to perform with a high degree of repeatability in regards to test protocol inputs and vehicle performance outputs and is the test device of choice for three separate research facilities around the world. The performance of a selection of vehicles, as tested on the JRS at the Center for Injury Research, was compared via logistic regression to their real world injury rate in single-vehicle rollovers using police-reported crash data. Results indicate that vehicles which experienced more roof crush in a JRS test generally experienced higher rates of incapacitating and fatal injury in real world rollover crashes.