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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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Predicting duration of traffic accidents based on cost-sensitive Bayesian network and weighted K-nearest neighbor

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems / Taylor & Francis, 2019
With the development of urbanization, road congestion has become increasingly serious, and an important cause is the traffic accidents. In this article, we aim to predict the duration of traffic accidents given a set of historical records and the feature
Li Kuang   +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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Human factors related to major road traffic accidents in China

Traffic Injury Prevention, 2019
Objective: The goals of this research are to: (i) investigate the contributing factors of major road traffic accidents using a human factors classification that follows the ideas of the human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS); (ii ...
Yingyu Zhang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Maxillofacial Injuries Due to Traffic Accidents.

The Journal of craniofacial surgery (Print), 2019
PURPOSE The purpose of this retrospective study was to analyze the epidemiology, patterns, and management of maxillofacial due to road traffic accidents over a 17-year period.
F. Roccia   +4 more
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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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