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For Whom Didn’t It Click? A Study of the Non-Use of Seat Belts in Motor Vehicle Fatalities in New Zealand

open access: yesJournal of Road Safety, 2019
There is an increased risk of death or serious injury for occupants who did not wear a seat belt in a crash. In New Zealand, between 2006 and 2016, the non-use of seat belts accounted for 19-30% of the overall motor vehicle road deaths, and this figure ...
Lily Hirsch   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A VR-Enhanced Rollover Car Simulator and Edutainment Application for Increasing Seat Belt Use Awareness

open access: yesComputers, 2021
Most countries have active road safety policies that seek the objective of reducing deaths in traffic accidents. One of the main factors in this regard is the awareness of the safety measures, one of the most important being the correct usage of the seat
José V. Riera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Seat Belts and Shock Absorbers on the Safety of Racing Car Drivers

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
This paper aimed to study the behavior of a body (dummy) that was in a race car in the event of a frontal collision with a wall in order to see what loads were acting on the dummy.
Calin Itu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laboratory Tests of the Control of the Child Seats using Method for the Vibration Comfort of Children Transported in Them

open access: yesCommunications, 2021
The article presents results of the laboratory studies of the impact of the child seats mounting method on the vibration comfort of children transported in them. The tested child seats were mounted forward facing the rear seat of a passenger car.
Andrzej Zuska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seat Belt Aorta

open access: yesAnnals of Vascular Surgery, 1990
This review of 11 cases of seat-belt associated blunt abdominal aortic trauma, includes nine cases reported in the literature and two new cases. Lap-type seat belts were the cause of this injury in eight of the 11 patients (73%). Clinical presentation was acute in 73% of the cases, with symptoms of acute arterial insufficiency, or an acute abdomen or ...
M P, Randhawa, J O, Menzoian
openaire   +2 more sources

Facial trauma in the largest city in Latin America, São Paulo, 15 years after the enactment of the compulsory seat belt law

open access: yesClinics, 2010
Traffic accidents are a reality throughout Brazil. The face is one of the anatomic parts most affected by these accidents, especially when a seat belt is not used.
Tarley Eloy Pessoa de Barros   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of seat belt use and its associated factors among public transport drivers in North Gondar, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Road traffic injuries are the major and neglected public health challenges. It causes 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries yearly and the use of seat belt reduces 60% of the cases. However, little is known about the magnitude of utilizing
Manay K. Woldegebriel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seating position, seat belt wearing, and the consequences in facial fractures in car occupants Posição no veículo, uso de cinto de segurança e suas conseqüências nas fraturas de face em ocupantes de carros

open access: yesClinics, 2007
INTRODUCTION: Trauma caused by traffic accidents is among the main etiologies involved in the occurrence of facial fractures throughout the world.
Alexandre Siqueira Franco Fonseca   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seat Belt Usage in Injured Car Occupants: Injury Patterns, Severity and Outcome After Two Main Car Accident Mechanisms in Kashan, Iran, 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are the main public health problems in Iran. The seat belts, which are vehicle safety devices, are imperative to reduce the risk of severe injuries and mortality.
Mahdian, S.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of a Just Regional Energy Transition: What If We Ask Citizens?

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The installation of wind turbines and solar parks in valued rural landscapes has led to local concerns and perceived injustices to the extent that the societal acceptance of the energy transition is at stake. Although the literature on energy justice is blooming, research into citizens' understandings of justice with regards to regional energy
Simone Haarbosch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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