Motor Vehicle Crashes
Children in Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes
... revealed that alcohol use, although associated with 7.9% of motor vehicle crashes involving children, accounted for 15.4% of the motor vehicle-related deaths and 10.4% of the injuries.. [r] ...
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Restriction in functioning and quality of life is common in people 2 months after compensable motor vehicle crashes: prospective cohort study
... About half of all injuries reported following motor vehicle crashes are whiplash-associated disorders. Older age, female gender, higher initial pain, greater number of symptoms, greater initial ...
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Side impact motor vehicle crashes: driver, passenger, vehicle and crash characteristics for fatally and nonfatally-injured rear-seated adults
... reported motor vehicle ...of crashes within the sampled ...person-, vehicle-, and crash-level variables, including drivers’ and passengers’ age and gen- der, seating position, restraint use, ...
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Opportunities to Reduce Distracted Driving and Adolescent Driver Motor Vehicle Crashes
... to motor vehicle crashes ...fatal crashes 3 and more recently nonfatal injury crashes in the overall ...the vehicle and cite the driver for texting while driving), secondary ...
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Prescription opioids, alcohol and fatal motor vehicle crashes: a population-based case-control study
... of motor vehicle crash ...fatal crashes in Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina due to unreliable drug testing data re- corded in the FARS from these states (Drummer et ...fatal motor ...
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A prospective study of the role of sleep related disordered breathing as a risk factor for motor vehicle crashes and the development of systemic complications in non-commercial drivers
... increased motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) in operators of commercial motor vehicles [1-3] and in an older series of a general population of patients involved in MVCs ...
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Adverse weather conditions and fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States, 1994-2012
... for crashes on slippery roads ...localized motor vehicle crashes were found to in- crease substantially as compared to dry weather ...injury crashes is associated with snowy and wintry ...
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Predictors of Hazardous Child Seating Behavior in Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes: 1990 to 1998
... of motor vehicle crashes in the United States involving at least 1 fatality that occurred within 30 days of the ...on motor vehicle operation that includes occupant seating position and ...
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Motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study
... of motor-vehicle pregnant driver crashes in Pennsylvania using vital statistics linked to police and ambulance ...pregnancy-related crashes in other states. Methods: Motor ...
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Spatial characteristics of bicycle–motor vehicle crashes in Christchurch, New Zealand: A case-control approach
... bicycle-motor vehicle crashes occurring on a network-wide level in Christchurch, New Zealand, based on the spatial characteristics present in the road ...reported crashes, while control sites ...
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Children With Special Health Care Needs: Patterns of Safety Restraint Use, Seating Position, and Risk of Injury in Motor Vehicle Crashes
... RESULTS. Complete data were collected for 14 654 children aged 4 to 15 years, repre- senting 171 633 children in crashes. Of these, 152 children were reported to have a special need likely to affect behavior, ...
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In-hospital mortality among patients injured in motor vehicle crashes in a Saudi Arabian hospital relative to large U.S. trauma centers
... (motor vehicle occupant versus pedestrian, or motorcyclist), an indicator for transfer to surgery from the ED, an indicator for head injury, and an indicator for being hypotensive (Glance et ...
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Effects of Seating Position and Appropriate Restraint Use on the Risk of Injury to Children in Motor Vehicle Crashes
... Farm-insured vehicle. Qualifying crashes were limited to those that occurred in 15 states, representing 3 large regions of the United States, between Decem- ber 1, 1998, and November 30, ...2002. ...
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Factors Associated With Unrestrained Young Passengers in Motor Vehicle Crashes
... plateaued. 1 One way to make meaningful progress is to investigate modi fi able crash characteristics. In 2015, 39% of children who died in MVCs were unrestrained. 2 Although survey data reveal an association between a ...
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Effects of Child Age and Body Size on Serious Injury From Passenger Air-Bag Presence in Motor Vehicle Crashes
... There are several potential limitations in our anal- ysis. The NASS CDS data set provided a relatively limited number of children who were seated in the right front seat and seriously injured in a vehicle equipped ...
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Pedestrian Injury Severity Analysis in Motor Vehicle Crashes in Ohio
... driver, vehicle, crash, and roadway factors associated with the injury severity of pedestrians from 268. pedestrian-vehicle crashes in the state of Ohio using crash dat[r] ...
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Factors associated with mortality in rear-seated adult passengers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes on US roadways
... of vehicle impact was on the same side or the opposite side of the rear-seated pas- senger, a potentially important predictor of fatality (Mayrose and Priya 2008; Zhu et ...
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Effect of Seating Position and Restraint Use on Injuries to Children in Motor Vehicle Crashes
... This study confirms that sitting in the rear seat during a motor vehicle crash offers a significant pro- tective effect, restraint use enhances this effect, and usage rates of restraint devices are too low. ...
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Organizational Accessibility and Community Connections: Examining Changes in the Spatial Proximity of Pubic Housing Residents to Social Service Providers and Providers' Responses to Redevelopment
... childhood death and injury in motor vehicle crashes and improve the safety and quality of life for children when riding in vehicles. To create and implement a successful action plan, the program ...
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Pediatric emergency department visits for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries in the US
... to motor vehi- cles, particularly those resulting in TBI, remain critically important clinical and public health ...of motor vehicle crash victims, especially young pe- ...prevent motor ...
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