The following studies have briefly been described: Airbag-mediated facial trauma (Larkin,GL, Johnson,KD and Blair,G); Traumatic avulsion of the first digit secondary to air bag deployment (Smock,WS); Predictors of seatbelt use: A profile of trauma patients (Dischinger,PC, Siegel,JH, Read,K and Mason-Gonzalez,S); Belts have not ended ejections: we need glass-plastic glazing (Clark,CC); Severe blunt maxillofacial injury with delayed presentation of carotid artery occlusion (Dominguez,JM, Fildes,JJ and Barrett,JA); Pickup truck related injuries in rural North Carolina - Prospective analysis (Cline,DM, San Miguel,E, Lowry,B, Rogers,J, Brown,CK, Dunn,KA, Dutton,K and Cunningham,P); Drivers who hit pedestrians (van Wijngaarden,MH, Cushing,B, Dischinger,P and Kerns,T); Repeat Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) offenders involvement in fatal crashes (Fell,JC); Alcohol purchase and consumption site prior to an automobile collision; time from point of consumption to automobile collisions (Santana,JR and Martinez,R); Underlying medical illness in the elderly: a traffic safety risk (Rehm,CG); Risk of injury in rear-end crashes involving parked vehicles (Mortimer,RG); The utilization of physicians trained in Clinical Forensic Medicine to determine occupant roles in motor vehicle collisions (Smock,WS and Fuller,PM); The impact of uncontrolled triage of underinsured patients on Level I Trauma Centres in New Jersey (Young,GS, Huberty,PF, Ross,S, O'Malley,K and Talucci,R); Contribution to a better compensation to the road traffic brain damaged and their families (Mathelin,V and Cesari,D); A prospective comparison of two injury scaling systems: Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 85 and AIS 90 (Osler,TM, Davis,VH, Rhodes-Mosley,TA, Pathak,DR, Clevenger,FW and Fry,DE).
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