Emergency World Summit - Automotive Safety Analysis

www.PeopleSafeInRollovers.org
Emergency World Summit
Cold Hard Facts:
10,000 people die each year in
the U.S. in rollover accidents.
24,000 people are catastrophically
injured each year in the
U.S. in rollover accidents.
The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration’s
(NHTSA) proposed rule for roof
strength (FMVSS 216), will only
save 13-44 of the 10,000 that
die annually in rollover related
accidents.
Engineers
Politicians
Professors
Roof Crush Survivors
Safety Advocates
Insurance Companies
Attorneys
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
July 18 - 20, 2007
World renowned expert engineers met to debate the cause of
injury in a rollover (Diving vs. Roof Intrusion) and to expose the weak
U.S. government standard that has led to more than three decades of
unnecessary fatalities and catastrophic injuries in rollover accidents.
Although the experts supporting the “DIVING THEORY” declined to
participate, the debate went forward with their testimony under oath
on this issue. Other topics of discussion were Ejection, Severity, Testing,
Regulation, Injury Measures, Disabled Living & Spinal Cord Injuries,
Societal Costs, Defense and Plaintiff Strategies, Public Information,
NCAP, and International Cooperation.
Engineers who have studied the issue of ROOF CRUSH in depth
presented scientific papers and videos of roof drop test comparisons
and vehicle rollover comparisons of strong roofs vs. weak roofs.
Survivors of ROOF CRUSH told their personal stories.
Press
Public
Goal . . . To affect a major upgrade in the proposed Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 216 - Roof Crush Resistance
before it is finalized requiring dynamic testing. Accident analyses
show real-world rollover accidents frequently involve extreme local
structural stresses on parts of the vehicle structure.

Some Keynote Speakers
Professor E. Clive Chirwa, PhD
Engineering and Design Department, The University of Bolton - United Kingdom
Chair of Automotive & Aerospace Structures
Head of Bolton Automotive & Aerospace Research Group (BAARG)
Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Crashworthiness
Recent Paper: Flaws in Malibu I and II interpretations of test results
that have influenced many poor rollover roof designs
Joan Claybrook
President of Public Citizen
Washington, DC U.S.A.
Donald Friedman
Expert Engineer
Santa Barbara, California U.S.A.
Founder of the Center For Injury Research and Xprts, LLC
Developed the JRS (Jordan Rollover System) - repeatable rollover test device
Recent Paper: Reducing Occupant Injuries: How And How Soon
Ralph Nader founded Public Citizen in 1971 which attracted people who believed deeply in citizen
participation in government and who were willing to battle against great odds to enact reforms on
behalf of the American people. Joan Claybrook joined Nader in 1972 establishing its Congress
Watch division. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter named her administrator of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, where she vigorously upgraded the agency’s testing, vehicle safety
standards and outreach programs. Nader left Public Citizen in 1980, and Joan Claybrook took the
reins in 1982. She has been president ever since.
Clarence Ditlow
Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer
group founded by Consumers Union and Ralph Nader
Washington, DC U.S.A.
Mr. Ditlow joined the Center for Auto Safety in 1975. He directs the Center
to improve auto safety, reliability and efficiency. He led consumer efforts
to get “lemon laws” passed in all 50 states. Mr. Ditlow has testified over 25
times before Congressional Committees on auto safety issues.
Ben C. Parr
Former General Motors Engineer - Career at GM 1947-1981
Director of Automotive Research - State Farm Insurance from 1981-1998
Heyworth, Illinois U.S.A.
Expertise: More than 40 years of hands on contribution both in automotive engineering, product
development and production phases as well as evaluation of the automobile design
and performance characteristics in the hands of the consumer.
Claudette Phillips
Complete Quadriplegic Roof Crush Survivor
Memphis, Tennessee U.S.A.
Background: In 1981 Claudette graduated from Central High School in
Memphis, Tennessee where she was an active member of student government.
She got a scholarship to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and
served as President of her freshman class. Claudette studied English Literature
and Ancient History. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year as part of
the Smith exchange program and graduated from Smith in 1985. She worked
as a fundraiser for charitable organizations including the Red Cross, Children’s
Fund and American Bible Society. On July 14, 2002 Claudette was wearing her
seat belt while driving her 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee when the vehicle rolled
over and the roof of the vehicle crushed excessively into Claudette’s survival
space and rendered her a quadriplegic. Claudette is a single mother.
Ben Hogan
Trial Lawyer - Birmingham, Alabama U.S.A.
Ben Hogan played an important role in “opening up the roof crush docket for comments.” NHTSA’s October 22, 2001
Request for Comments took particular notice of the petition for rulemaking from Hogan’s law firm that requested
dynamic testing be used to validate the strength of vehicle roof structures, instead of the current quasi-static
procedure - in particular the inverted drop test J996 evaluating different drop angles and drop heights.

Some Keynote Speakers
Professor Raphael Grzebieta, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Monash University - Victoria, Australia
Expertise: Vehicle & Structural Crashworthiness, Human Injury Prevention, Crash and Laboratory
Testing, Impacts & Injury Mechanisms, Structural Impact and Stress Engineering.
Recent Paper: Diving vs. Roof Intrusion: A Review of Rollover Injury Causation
Leonard N. Matheson, PhD
Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A.
Dr. Matheson is a licensed psychologist, certified vocational evaluator, and
certified rehabilitation counselor who has been a pioneer in the field of
occupational rehabilitation. He has designed many of the tests and
treatment models that are in use in Occupational Rehabilitation. His tests
have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He has been
consultant to several Fortune 500 employers, the Social Security Administration,
the United States Congress, and hundreds of rehabilitation centers and
governmental agencies in the United States, Canada, and in other
countries. He has testified before the United States House of Representatives
in Washington, DC.
Michael Piuze
Trial Lawyer
Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
Michael has been successful in obtaining verdicts in three ROOF CRUSH trials:
John Hess v. Ford Motor Company - $12.5 million (1998)
Robbie Lambert v. General Motors - $25.7 million (2001)
Penny Shipler v. General Motors - $19,562,000 (2003)
Other Achievements: $3 billion verdict against Philip Morris for a 56-year-old lifelong smoker (2001)
$28 billion verdict against Phillip Morris for a 64-year-old lifelong smoker (2003)
Stephen M. Forrest
Senior Engineer / Principal - Safety Analysis & Forensic Engineering (SAFE)
Santa Barbara, California U.S.A.
Expertise: 20 years of diversified experience as a Senior Technical Engineer
and Engineering Consultant with a solid track record of successful
experience in Government, Military, Corporate and Private sectors.
Acen Jordan - Designer of the JRS (Jordan Rollover System)
Carmel, California U.S.A.
Past Projects: Minicar Transit System (MTS)
Experimental Safety Vehicle (ESV)
Four Passive Restraint Developments
Research Safety Vehicle (RSV)
In 2002, Acen began design and development
of a laboratory test system for the Center for Injury
Research (CFIR), Santa Barbara. This was completed
in 2004 and validated by a year of testing
and is currently used to evaluate rollover crashworthiness
of SUV’s.
JRS (Jordan Rollover System)
repeatable rollover test device

Some Keynote Speakers
Joseph L. Burton, MD
Forensic Pathologist and Doctor of Medicine
Alpharetta, Georgia U.S.A.
Dr. Burton served as the Chief Medical Examiner for Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia for twenty-two years. He
served as the Director of the Forensic Pathology Training Program at Emory University School of Medicine. He is
an expert in crime scene reconstruction, injury pattern analysis, Biomechanics and Occupant Kinematics. Dr.
Burton is a Regional Pathologist for the Federal Aviation Administration and is active as a consultant on cases
with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. He has
lectured extensively and published research in areas pertaining to Biomechanics and Occupant Kinematics.
Ben Kelley
Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute
Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.
Ben Kelley is a former Department of Transportation offical and former senior vice
president of Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). From 1988-1995 Ben
served as president of Institute for Injury Reduction, a non-profit research and
educational group founded by plaintiff’s attorneys to address issues involving
product-related injuries and president of A. B. Kelley Consulting. He is currently a
visiting faculty member of Tufts University School of Medicine, a board member of
both Center for Auto Safety and Public Health Advocacy Institute, director of PHAI
Motor Vehicle Hazards Archives project. Ben is also an expert witness and
consultant on product hazard policy, regulatory, historical and causation issues.
John M. Stilson
Engineer - Safety and Automotive Consultant
Wildwood, Illinois U.S.A.
Former Design Engineer for both Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation
Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Product Design Engineering, Product Safety
Engineering, Product Test & Development, Product Quality Assurance, Product Problem Analysis,
Manufacturing Processing, Prototype Design & Development, Accident Reconstruction & Cause
Analysis, Vehicle Evaluation, Product Failure Mode Analysis and Product Reliability.
Professor Mariusz Ziejewski, PhD
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of North Dakota - U.S.A.
Expertise: Dr. Ziejewski is the director of the Impact Biomechanics Laboratory
and the director of the Automotive Systems Laboratory. He is also
an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience
at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. In
Stockholm, Sweden at the 5th World Congress on Brain Injury in
May of 2003, Dr. Ziejewski was elected to serve on the International
Brain Injury Association’s Board of Governors.
E. Todd Tracy
Trial Lawyer - The TRACY Firm, Dallas, Texas U.S.A.
E. Todd Tracy is an automobile crashworthiness attorney. He has tried 58 vehicle crashworthiness cases
against General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Ferrari, TRW, Allied Signal,
Honeywell and Cosco child seats. He has handled over 1,950 cases against every vehicle manufacturer
in the world as well as cases against component part manufacturers and child seat manufacturers.
Todd is a Lifetime Member of the Million Dollar Advocates and has obtained numerous multimillion
dollar verdicts. Todd is a frequent author and lecturer on issues involving crashworthiness issues.
He is the co-author of Deadly By Design.
Shane Richardson
Mechanical Engineering with 18 years experience in
applying systems engineering methods to the procurement,
specifications development, and design of automotive,
military and mechanical systems for the Australian Army.
Melbourne, Australia
Shane is currently a director of DVExperts International, who currently
designs, builds and installs rollover protective systems on vehicles world
wide. Shane is also completing his PhD at Monash University. The focus
of his research thesis is rollover protection for light vehicles.

Some Keynote Speakers
Nicholas Perrone, PhD
Mechanical Engineer
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
- PhD in Applied Mechanics (Mechanical Engineering)
- Director of Government Research Program in Structural Mechanics, 11 years
- Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Catholic University, 11 years
- Elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Academy
of Mechanics and American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Member, Society of Automotive Engineers and Society of Manufacturing Engineers
David Garcia
Complete Quadriplegic Roof Crush Survivor
Endicott, New York U.S.A.
David Garcia was only 29 years old and had recently completed his
course work requirements for his PhD when he was traveling on I-29 in
Tallulah, Louisiana on May 25, 1996. He was driving a Ford Escort 2
door hatchback and had his fiance, Kristen Brown, as a right front
passenger. The weather was clear, the roads were dry and the future
looked bright. However, David’s life was soon to be turned upside
down. In an effort to avert a
vehicle he perceived as
coming into his lane, he took
an evasive action and veered
into a median grass strip
between the interstate
roadways; he rolled over at a
speed of only 35 miles per
hour. During the rollover, there
was massive roof crush
causing paralyzing injury to his
lower neck vertebrae. David
is a C4-C5 complete quadriplegic.
Despite his life altering experience with its devastating consequences, David Garcia has
completed his PhD and turned in one of the most marvelous thesis products that his professors at Vanderbilt
had ever seen.
David Garcia wants the government to pay attention to the automobile rollover statistics. This is why he
is making the trip to Washington, DC with his family -- to share his own personal experience and to
advocate for a major upgrade in the proposed Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 216 - Roof
Crush Resistance before it is finalized.
Byron Bloch
Independent Consultant in Auto Safety Design
Potomoc, Maryland U.S.A.
For 20+ years, Byron Bloch has inspected and evaluated the safety and
crashworthiness of motor vehicles, and has consulted and testified in Product
Liability cases across the nation. Bryon also believes in bringing auto safety
hazard information to the public, and has consulted to and appeared on
ABC’s “20/20” and “Primetime Live” in reports on unsafe fuel tanks, weak seats,
bad seatbelts, the Kentucky school bus fire, truck underride, and rollover roof
crush hazards.
Minh Tran
Uninjured Belted Driver in the Rollover of a BMW X5
Centreville, Virginia U.S.A.
The strong roof of the X5 protected
Minh from injury in the rollover event.
On May 22, 2007 Minh Tran
was the belted driver of a
BMW X5 when the vehicle
rolled over - passenger side
leading roll. The vehicle
rolled over one and a half
times landing on the roof.
When it came to a rest Minh
was dangling in his seat belt.
He unbuckled his belt, fell to
the roof, rolled the window
down (rather up) and then
crawled out onto the
pavement.

Brian J. Benda, PhD
Biomechanical Engineer, ARCCA Incorporated
Penns Park, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Brian has his PhD from Harvard/MIT in Medical Engineering, an MS in Structural Engineering, and a
BS in areospace engineering. Brian specializes in injury biomechanics, occupant kinematics and
crash related structural failures of the human body.
Darryl Lewis
Trial Lawyer
Partner of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, PA
West Palm Beach, Florida U.S.A.
Darryl Lewis has been named by South Florida Legal Guide as one of Florids’a top
young lawyers. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserve, where he
serves as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) lawyer. Since joining Searcy Denney
Scarola Barnhart & Shipley in 1989, Darryl has represented clients in personal
injury and wrongful death claims in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Washington. Darryl is an inspiring public speaker and was
selected by the former Governor of Kentucky to deliver the keynote address at
the state’s second annual Martin Luther King day celebration.
Stephen A. Batzer, PhD
Director, Engineering Institute, LLC
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Arkansas
Farmington, Arkansas U.S.A.
Expertise: Vehicle Crashworthiness, Materials Science and Material Failure Mechanisms,
Forensic Engineering & Accident Reconstruction and Occupant Kinematics Analysis.
Recent Paper: Rollover Collisions - Injuries related to automotive side glass
Professor Klaus-Jurgen Bathe, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A.
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Some Keynote Speakers
Klaus-Jurgen Bathe is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He teaches and performs research in the areas of applied
and computational mechanics of structures and fluids. Professor Bathe is also the
founder of the company ADINA R & D, Inc. where he leads the development of
the ADINA System for the analysis of structures, fluids and multi-physics problems.
He has published over 250 articles, five textbooks, is a co-editor of the international
journal Computers & Structures, and is founder of M.I.T. Conference Series
on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. Professor Bathe has been honored
by ASME, ASCE, US National Academy of Engineering, M.I.T. and a number of
honorary doctorates, for his teaching and his pioneering and widely used
contributions in computational engineering.
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Heng-yee Chen, PhD
FORD Vehicle Structural Mechanics Specialist from 1970-1999
San Francisco, California U.S.A.
Dr. Chen was the first one at FORD to:
- use finite element code STARDYNE for a 1973 frame analysis (1970)
- perform full vehicle rigidity and normal mode analyses with MSC/NASTRAN super-element capabilities (1976)
- train the first core group of structural analysts in Body Engineering and to perform full vehicle analysis (1976)
- develop finite element modeling guidelines for FEA (1977)
- perform vehicle roof crush (beam model) simulation (1978)
- develop methods and analysts guidelines for Nonlinear Quasi-static analysis
with ADINA R & D, Inc. (1996)
- use the best implicit method for nonlinear quasi-static analyses including
validation for the first FMVSS 216 simulation in the automotive industry (1999)
Professor Toshiaki Sakurai, PhD
Professor, Doctor of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Science and Paula Engineering Lawlor
Emergency Iwaki Meisei World University Summit - on Iwaki ROOF City, CRUSH Fukushima Coordinator Japan
Founder of People Safe In Rollovers Foundation
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Co-Author Engineer of Deadly from By 1978-2000. Design
Roof Crush Consultant - Del Mar, California U.S.A.

Welcome Reception
Wednesday July 18, 2007
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Thornton Room
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capital Hill - 11th Floor
Emergency World Summit
An American Auto Safety Tragedy:
ROOF CRUSH
Senate Reception
Thursday July 19, 2007
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Room 253
Russell Senate Office Building
Emergency World Summit
An American Auto Safety Tragedy:
ROOF CRUSH

Thursday - July 19th
Friday - July 20th
7:00 am - 8:00 am
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:00 am - 8:00 am
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Paula Lawlor . . . Founder of People Safe In Rollovers Foundation
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Shane Richardson . . . Mechanical Engineer, Director of DVExperts International
8:30 am - 9:00 am
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Ben Kelley . . . Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute
Ben Hogan . . . Trial Lawyer - Birmingham, Alabama
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Donald Friedman & Acen Jordan
Founder of the Center for Injury Research . . . Designer of the JRS
JRS - Repeatable Rollover Test
9:30 am - 10:00 am
10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Raphael Grzebieta . . . Associate Professor, Department of Civil Enginering
Monash University
MORNING BREAK
Donald Friedman and Professor Clive Chirwa
Cause of Injury in a Rollover: Diving vs. Roof Intrusion
9:30 am - 10:00 am
10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am - 11:00 am
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Stephen Batzer . . .Director of Engineering Institute, LLC
MORNING BREAK
Paula Lawlor . . . Announcing the PETITION
Stephen Batzer . . . Director of Engineering Institute, LLC
Brian Benda . . . Biomechanical Engineer, ARCCA Incorported
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
PRESS CONFERENCE: Strong Roofs vs. Weak Roofs
Byron Bloch, David Garcia, Minh Tran and Dr. Joseph Burton
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Byron Bloch . . . Auto Safety Design Expert
David Garcia . . . Quadriplegic Roof Crush Survivor
Garcia v. Ford Motor Company VERDICT
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
LUNCH
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Joseph Burton . . . Forensic Pathologist and Doctor of Medicine
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
John Stilson . . . Former Design Engineer for both Ford and Chrysler
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Stephen Forrest . . . Safety Analysis & Forensic Engineering
1:20 pm - 1:45 pm
Michael Piuze . . . Trial Lawyer - Los Angeles, California
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Minh Tran . . . “LIVING PROOF,” a strong roof saved his life
. .
Professor Klaus-Jurgen Bathe & Dr. Heng-yee Chen
On the Computer Simulation of Car Crush and Accident Conditions
1:45 pm - 2:10 pm
2:10 pm - 2:35 pm
Inverted Vehicle Drop Testing
Stephen Forrest . . . Technical Engineer & Engineering Consultant - S.A.F.E.
Clive Chirwa . . . Chair of Automotive & Aerospace Structures - Univ. of Bolton
Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Crashworthiness
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Mariusz Ziejewski . . .Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
North Dakota State University
2:35 pm - 3:00 pm
Immediate ACTION to begin saving lives
Nicholas Perrone & Ben Parr
PhD in Mechanical Engineering . . . Former Automobile Engineer for General Motors
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Todd Tracy . . . Trial Lawyer - Dallas, Texas
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Darryl Lewis . . . Trial Lawyer - West Palm Beach, Florida
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Claudette Phillips . . . Complete Quadriplegic Roof Crush Survivor
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Raphael Grzebieta . . . Associate Professor, Department of
Engineering, Monash University
NCAP
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Leonard Matheson . . . Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Joan Claybrook & Clarence Ditlow
President of Public Citizen . . . Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety
5:45 pm SHARP!
2 buses in front of Hyatt Regency transport guests to Senate
SENATE RECEPTION
RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING - Room 253
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
FAREWELL GATHERING
NETWORKS BAR