BIOMECHANICAL ASPECTS OF HEAD TRAUMA IN PEDESTRIANS

The biomechanical and lesional aspect in traffic accidents depends on the physical phenomena triggered by collision, the agressional factors acting on the human being as A complex of mechanical and kinetical order. In spite of the fact that usually pedestrians show up as polytraumatized (65% of the 500 cases studied), the gravity of their lesions is conferred by the cranio-cerebral trauma which in this way becomes the most frequent cause of death. /TRRL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Meeting on Biomechanics of Injury.
• Corporate Authors:

  IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

  109 Avenue Salvador Allende
  Bron CEDEX,   France  F-69675
• Authors:
  • Scripcaru, G
  • Ianovici, N
  • Anghel, M
• Publication Date: 1976-9

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 210-215
• Serial:
  • Publication of: IRCOBI SECRETARIAT
  • Publisher: IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biophysics; Brain; Conferences; Crash severity; Fatalities; Head; Injuries; Injury severity; Pedestrians
• ITRD Terms: 2060: Biomechanics; 2030: Brain; 8525: Conference; 1602: Fatality; 2163: Injury; 1733: Pedestrian; 1623: Severity (accid, injury)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00148062
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 1977 12:00AM