In recent years, vehicular accidents and injuries and deaths resulting from these accidents have become matters of serious national concern. With this concern has come an awareness that a better understanding is needed of the causes of traffic crashes and also of the agents which produce injuries and deaths once accidents occur. This report gives the results of a comprehensive and systematic study of ten severe accidents which occurred in Atlanta, Georgia during a three month period. The research, which was accomplished as a pilot study for the National Highway Safety Bureau, was a broad-based team effort which involved the participation of a civil engineer, neurological surgeon, automotive technician, safety engineer, pathologist, and medical secretary. The research included an epidemiological study of factors leading to the initiation of accidents as well as a study of the 'second collision' to establish the kinematics of the occupants and to identify the agent(s) which caused the injuries and deaths. (Author)


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    Title :

    A Study of Severe Vehicular Accidents Phase 1: Medico-Engineering Training Program


    Contributors:
    F. L. Jolley (author) / P. H. Wright (author)

    Publication date :

    1968


    Size :

    125 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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