Crash injury reduction via lap-shoulder belt use has been well documented. Like any other interior car component, lap-shoulder belts may be related to injury in certain crashes. Relatively unknown is the fact that cervical fractures or fracture-dislocations to restrained front seat occupants occur where no head contact was evidenced by both medical records and car inspection. A review of the av...

Car body deformation modeling plays a very important role in crash accident analyses, as well as in safe car body design. The determination of the energy absorbed by the deformation and the corresponding Energy Equivalent Speed can be of key importance, however their precise determination is a very difficult task. Although, using the results of crash tests, intelligent and soft methods offer an...

Car body deformation modeling plays a very important role in crash accident analyses, as well as in safe car body design. The determination of the energy absorbed by the deformation and the corresponding Energy Equivalent Speed can be of key importance, however their precise determination is a very difficult task. Although, using the results of crash tests, intelligent and soft methods offer an...

A 26-year-old man suffered a severe impact in a car crash. Computed tomography showed an image suspicious for coronary injury (Fig. 1a). Coronary angiography (Fig. 1b, Supplementary Video 1) revealed a pseudoaneurysm of the first diagonal branch. Sealing was cancelled because of spontaneous healing (Fig. 1c, Supplementary Video 2). Pseudoaneurysm disappeared and coronary artery remained normal ...

Whiplash injuries resulting from rear impacts are one of the most important injury categories with regard to long-term consequences. Most rear impacts lead to no injury or to symptoms that are temporary. Impacts where the duration of symptoms differs need to be separated in analyses in order to isolate representative rear impact conditions in which more long-lasting whiplash injuries occur. The...

BACKGROUND We aimed to establish the frequency and characteristics (e.g. socioeconomic, pre-injury, and crash-related parameters) of injured bicyclists and other injured road users. METHODS 748 participants aged ≥17 years who had sustained a minor or non-catastrophic injury in a land-transport crash, were interviewed after presenting to a metro hospital emergency department in New South Wales...

Maria Krafft Folksam Research and Karolinska Institute Sweden. Despite a good prognosis for individual victims, AIS 1 neck injuries causing long-term consequences are the most common disability injury in Sweden. This study compares the characteristics of rear impacts causing both shortand long-term disabil ity neck injuries. Real life data from Swedish insurance material during 1 990-1 993 were...

Safety of the occupant during the crash is very essential design element. Many researches have been investigated in reducing the fatal injury of occupant. They are focusing on the development of a dummy in order to obtain the real human like motion[1]. However, they have not considered the arm resist motion during the car accident. In this study, we would like to suggest the importance of the r...

ll costs for treatment of road crash patients are free in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this model, Islamic Republic of Iran offers a synergistic approach that is efficient from both the cost and health outcome sides. In this system, all costs of treatment for victims of road crashes are free regardless of who was at fault in causing the crash. It is more than 10 years that insurance compani...