SPINAL INJURIES IN BELT-WEARING CAR OCCUPANTS KILLED BY HEAD-ON COLLISIONS

In 34 post-mortem examinations of car occupants wearing seat belts and killed in straight or oblique head-on collisions, a thorough investigation of the spine was performed. The autopsy results were correlated with the findings in the cars in order to reconstruct the events when the occupant's body struck the interior of the car. The type and severity of injuries were then considered in relation to whether the vehicle occupant wore lap belt, shoulder belt or lap and shoulder belt. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Hexagon Publishing Company Limited

  19 Spencer Street
  St Albans, Hertfordshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • Skold, G
  • Voigt, G E
• Publication Date: 1977-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos; References;
• Pagination: p. 151-161
• Serial:
  • Injury
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0020-1383
  • EISSN: 1879-0267
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00201383

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Face; Fatalities; Frontal crashes; Injuries; Injury severity; Manual safety belts; Shoulder harnesses; Spinal column; Traffic crashes; Vertebrae
• Old TRIS Terms: Shoulder harness
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 1394: Catalytic converter; 2040: Cervical vertebrae; 7163: Chemical analysis; 2011: Face (human); 1602: Fatality; 2547: Fog; 1640: Head on collision; 7367: Hydrocarbon; 2163: Injury; 505: Light intensity; 7128: Nitrogen; 7157: Oxidation; 7372: Oxide; 1476: Safety belt; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 9103: Simulation; 2041: Spinal column; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172557
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1978 12:00AM