The medical significance of occupant restraint on road crash victims and those who treat them.

Author(s)
Trinca, G.W.
Year
Abstract

There is now undisputed world wide evidence that properly adjusted occupant restraints substantially reduce the severity of injury to vehicle occupants in road crashes. Few injuries of signifcance are due directly to belt wearing and there is no evidence that belts offer any special risk to occupants. The role of physicians and surgeons in particular must play in road safety programs is stressed.

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Library number
B 19156 (In: B 19155) /84/91/
Source

In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Occupant Restraint, Toronto, June 1-3, 1981, p. 3-13, 2 tab., 26 ref.

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