Forensic Pedestrian Trauma Database
The programme led by Dr Christophe Bastien is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Future Transport and Cities and is the project lead on the development of a Forensic Pedestrian Trauma Database (FPTD). The FTPD aims to maximise the chance of survival for pedestrians in road traffic collisions and why Christophe’s research and innovation has been selected for this Royal award.
FPTD is a database that includes real-life and computer-generated pedestrian accidents, which contains vehicle profile and speed, as well as pedestrian gender, size and age, as these affect trauma response. This will be used as a tool to inform paramedics, in seconds, about the victim’s state of trauma per organ, by reverse-engineering the collision and then computing in real-time a virtual scan of the body based on picture evidence of the impact of the vehicle and visible pedestrian trauma injuries. The model’s ability to evaluate soft tissue injuries and severity in real-time can help maximise the chance of survival through quicker analysis at the scene