An occupant protection device includes at least one adaptive restraint system with a restraint device and a sensor device configured to acquire at least one occupant-specific parameter, and a control device. The control device is adapted and configured to control the restraint device at least in the event of an accident as a function of the occupant-specific parameter. The sensor device includes a textile pressure sensor integrated into a belt webbing of a seat belt and provides a large number of spatially distributed pressure signals. The sensor device includes an evaluation unit adapted and configured to register the pressure signals in a spatially resolved manner and ascertain a pressure distribution that describes a spatial distribution of a force exerted on the seat belt by the person wearing the seat belt and provide the pressure distribution as an occupant-specific parameter to the control device for controlling the restraint device.

A system for detecting a vehicular collision (i) receives occupant data from at least one internal sensor; (ii) receives external data from at least one external sensor; (iii) determines positional information for at least one occupant of a vehicle; and (iv) generates a virtual reconstruction of the vehicle collision. The virtual reconstruction indicates a severity of vehicle damage and a severity of injury to the at least one occupant caused by the vehicle collision. The system may also utilized vehicle occupant positional data, and internal and external sensor data to detect potential imminent vehicle collisions, take corrective actions, automatically engage autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle systems, and/or perform at least one action to reduce a severity of a potential injury.