arlier this year, two L6-year-oIds E l injured in a drunk-driving accident ; near their high school were taken to Scripps .Mercy Hospital in San Diegoone by Mercy Air, the hospital's helicopter service, and the other by ambulance. Once inside the trauma room, physicians and nurses tried valiantly to save their lives. When the victims parents arrived at Mercy, they experienced the tragedy of sud...

Laverty, Kelly, Rotton, and Flynn conducted a regression analysis in 1992 on 9 years of automobile accidents in Saskatchewan (a total of 200,545 accidents) to find a small linear trend, season effects, holiday, and day of the week effects. The application of a hidden Markov model to the residuals of this analysis uncovered two states which are likely to be related to the weather. These states c...

It was established beyond the shadow of a doubt [in the early 1960s] that the individual who is involved in automobile accidents, regardless of whether he appears to cause them or not, is much more likely to have accidents in the future than is the person who is accident free. These studies embraced probably well over 1 million cases in the aggregate. Note that I have just referred to accidents...

Light or heavy trucks and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) are increasingly popular, in part because they provide improved protection to their own passengers in an accident. However, when an accident occurs, these vehicles also cause greater injury to passengers of other vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists. Because the costs of these injuries are external costs in no-fault auto-li...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the mechanism of injury for foot and ankle fractures resulting from automobile accidents to create a basis for developing an improved design for protection. DESIGN Retrospective. SETTING Level I trauma center with accident research unit. PATIENTS Automobile accident reports and medical records of individuals injured in the accidents. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Techn...

W ith the advent of the automobile as a mode of transportation late in the nineteenth century, a new phenomenon, the motor vehicle acci­ dent, appeared on the American scene. While the motor vehicle was in its early stages of development, the problem was not serious. How­ ever, as the volume of cars on the highways increased, the number of accidents increased also; the problem began to assume g...

Aim: To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of patients with pelvic fractures. 
 Material and Methods: We evaluated age, gender, comorbid disease, admission season, mechanisms injury, type fractures (Young Burgess classification), associated injuries, mortality in emergency department (ED). Results: Of 919 included study, 307 (33.4%) were female 612 (66.6%) male. The mean age w...

Injuries to primary and young permanent teeth from simple falls around the home and school, automobile accidents, and various contact sports may result i n disfigurement and disruptive changes i n occlusion and alignment of the teeth. Whereas many injuries can be prevented with simple protective devices, others cannot be avoided. It is the purpose of this presentation to discuss the available p...

This paper reviews theoretical and empirical literature on the measurement of the major automobile externalities, namely local pollution, global pollution, oil dependence, traffic congestion and traffic accidents. It then dicusses the rationale for traditional policies to address these externalities, including fuel taxes, fuel economy standards, emissions standards and related policies. Finally...