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.


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    Title :

    The Prevention of Highway Injury


    Contributors:
    M. L. Selzer (author) / P. W. Gikas (author) / D. F. Huelke (author)

    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    300 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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