In recent years, vehicular accidents and injuries and deaths resulting from these accidents have become matters of serious national concern. With this concern has come an awareness that a better understanding is needed of the causes of traffic crashes and also of the agents which produce injuries and deaths once accidents occur. This report gives the results of a comprehensive and systematic study of ten severe accidents which occurred in Atlanta, Georgia during a three month period. The research, which was accomplished as a pilot study for the National Highway Safety Bureau, was a broad-based team effort which involved the participation of a civil engineer, neurological surgeon, automotive technician, safety engineer, pathologist, and medical secretary. The research included an epidemiological study of factors leading to the initiation of accidents as well as a study of the 'second collision' to establish the kinematics of the occupants and to identify the agent(s) which caused the injuries and deaths. (Author)


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    Titel :

    A Study of Severe Vehicular Accidents Phase 1: Medico-Engineering Training Program


    Beteiligte:
    F. L. Jolley (Autor:in) / P. H. Wright (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1968


    Format / Umfang :

    125 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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