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Road humps: accident prevention or hazard?
Two cases of injury to passengers seated on public transport buses occurred after the vehicles had traversed road humps. While the potential dangers to seated bus passengers have been acknowledged in the Department of Transport literature, specific mention in medical reports is lacking. Should the United Kingdom follow the example set by the United States, where the placement of road humps on b...
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The launch of a new international journal on injury prevention offers a unique opportunity to open up a debate on terminology. Over the last 30 years or so there has emerged a number of terms which may or may not be compatible. In North America there now appears to be a strong consensus on the use of the term injury control."2 In the UK the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.13.4.288