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Injuries in Traffic Accidents [PDF]

open access: possibleNew England Journal of Medicine, 1967
THE first vehicle to move under its own power was a steam tractor built by Cugnot in France in 1769. A century later Siegfried Markus built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, in Vienna, around 1870. However, Markus made only 4 cars, 1 of which survives to this day. It was Benz, in 1885, who made the first motorcar to be produced in
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Traffic accident or dumping? – Striking results of a traffic accident reconstruction

Legal Medicine, 2017
An atypical traffic accident scenario should be investigated directly at the crash site from all concerned professions, especially police men, forensic pathologists and technical experts, to get a personal overview and impression of the situation and the opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion.
Ronny Bayer   +4 more
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Alcohol misuse and traffic accidents

The Lancet, 2007
In their Review (Dec 23/30, p 2231),1 Marc Moss and Ellen Burnham highlight the effect of alcohol abuse on inpatients who need admission to the intensive care unit. In our opinion, however, they paid little attention to the effect of alcohol intake on trauma caused by traffic accidents. Alcohol-impaired driving is a serious threat to health. In the USA,
CAPUTO, FABIO   +2 more
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CHILDREN IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Pediatrics, 1969
The part that children play in traffic accidents has been studied by numerous workers from differing points of view. Slätis,1 in a study of 5,291 persons injured in traffic accidents and receiving medical treatment in Sweden, found that 16.3% were less than 15 years of age.
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Smoking and Traffic Accidents

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968
To the Editor:— Recent articles inThe Journal( 201 :861, 1967; 203 : 1100, 1968; and 205 :266, 1968) reaffirm the well-established relationship between drinking and traffic accidents. Studies have not, however, determined the effect of another popular pastime: smoking while driving.
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Child Traffic Accidents: An Investigation of Accident Factors

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1979
With the aim of examining accident factors in detail, 124 children aged 0–14 years were investigated; these comprised 90.5% of all children in the Odense area who in 1974 collided with a motor vehicle either as pedestrian or cyclist, and were seen at the casualty ward, Odense University Hospital.
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Cellular phones and traffic accidents

Public Health, 1997
Cellular phone use in motor vehicles is becoming an increasing world-wide phenomenon. Using data obtained from traffic accidents reported between 1992 and 1995 in the state of Oklahoma, USA, this study examined statistical rate-ratios of accident characteristics between drivers with or without cellular phones.
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The Analysis of Traffic Accidents

Journal of Navigation, 1971
A marine traffic accident may be defined in the wider sense as a collision or stranding and in a narrow sense as a collision. Several reports are available on the causes of collisions and on the relation of collision frequency to such factors as location, weather and time; S.
Reijiro Shiobara, Yahei Fujii
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1955
Accidents are the third cause of death and, as such, deserve more attention from the medical profession than they have hitherto received. While heart disease is the leading cause, and cancer takes second place, the role of accidents can no longer be ignored in our consideration of the present-day health problems. This is particularly true if we present
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