By S. R. INGLE Medical Officer, Mirajgaon (District Alimednagar) The rarity of such an injury and its medicolegal importance have prompted the publication of the following case :? History of the accident.?A driver of a motor-lorry with about a dozen passengers, while driving over a causeway about eight feet high, lost control of the car, with the result that it fell into the water (kneedeep) be...

BACKGROUND Drowsiness compromises driving ability by reducing alertness and attentiveness, and delayed reaction times. Sleep-related car crashes account for a considerable proportion of accident at the wheel. Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1), narcolepsy type 2 (NT2) and idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) are rare central disorders of hypersomnolence, the most severe causes of sleepiness thus being potential da...

This paper provides a link between car following theory and the economic theory of road congestion by means of a theory of speed choice. According to this theory speed choice is based on a trade-off between the benefits (shorter travel time) and cost (higher accident risk) of driving faster. Accident risk is related to the distance to the ‘leader’ and by elaborating this relationship a number o...

This paper assesses the ability of automobile insurance prices to distinguish the 2:1 ratio of men's to women's annual mileage, which is linked to a similar ratio of accident involvement per year. Review of current price classes by driver sex and age, by future mileage, and by past driver record reveals severe limitations to their capacity to assess women's lower mileage exposure to risk of acc...

Fracture of femur bones in car accident is common. In the present work, the fracture of femur bone was modeled as a failure under three-point bending. The CT scan data was converted into 3D solid modeling using Mimics software. The finite element analysis (FEA) was carried out using ANSYS software. The FEA results were in good agreement with the experiment results.

This report describes a husband and wife with acute posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who exhibited different subjective, psychophysiological, and neurobiological responses to traumatic script-driven imagery that caused them to reexperience their traumas. The couple, who had been trapped in their car during a serious motor vehicle accident, was assessed for responses to script-driven traumat...

The following report contains information about a proposed technology by the authors, which consists of a device that sits inside of a vehicle and constantly monitors the car’s information. It can determine speed, g-force, and location coordinates. Using these data, the device can detect a car crash or pothole on the road. The data collected from the car is forwarded to a server to for more in-...

One in every five occupants thrown from a car receives fatal injuries. A motorist who uses a safety belt, in all probability, will not be thrown from the car during a crash. The rate of fatal injury for ejected occupants was found to be 40 times the rate for occupants not thrown from their cars, as determined from national accident sampling data. These data refute the popular notion that "being...

The approaching deadline for eCall service implementation for new cars in 2018, raises a series of technical and logistic issues. The eCall service, part of iCar initiative, aims to reduce the road fatalities and severity injured person reduction, for post-crash situations. The eCall service consists into an In Vehicle System (IVS), which will be delivered mandatory on new cars, starting with 2...