Contents: Drinking, driving and death: An overview; Drinking drivers and driving drinkers--the need for multiple approaches to accidents involving alcohol; Responsibility, blood alcohol levels and alcoholism; A screening program to detect alcoholism in traffic offenders Deterrents to drinking and driving in alcohol misusers; Group therapy amongst persons involved in frequest automobile accidents; The combined effect of ethanol and other drugs; Research on the alcoholic driver; A note on the speed of visual perception; Visibility problems in night driving: The role of subjective brightness and contrast; The reduction of disability and discomfort glare in traffic; Improving visibility of the highway and highway signs as a means of accident prevention; The contribution of medical impairment to traffic accidents; The problem: Biomechanics of injury; Prevention of instrument panel and windshield head injuries; Seat belt injuries in impact; Experimental studies on thoracic and abdominal injuries; The causes and the prevention of car occupant neck injuries; Airbag restraints and airlitter systems for the alleviation of highway injury; Simulation of crash conditions.
The Prevention of Highway Injury
1967
300 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Industrial Safety Engineering , Clinical Medicine , Motor vehicle accidents , Crash injuries , Symposia , Safety , Roads , Visual acuity , Windshields , Head , Acceleration , Traffic , Addiction , Visual perception , Signals , Velocity , Drugs , Safety harness , Impact
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