Comparison of Selected Real Traffic Accidents to Crash Tests

This master’s thesis presents an overview of the basic forces acting on the vehicle, the basic methods of analysis of accident, collection of data used in the analysis of accidents, an overview of the basic performance criteria and thresholds used in the homologation test of occupant protection in a frontal impact, used crash tests, homologation tests and specifications for these tests. Attention is paid to Euro NCAP crash tests and to homologation tests of vehicles Skoda Octavia with aim to try to compare them with selected accidents in terms of depth and character deformation and evaluate findings comparision