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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Motor vehicle crashes"”.
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Describing the Roadway and Driver Characteristics of Fatality Motor Vehicle Crashes in Travis County Texas in 2008
… design, and driver characteristics of motor vehicle fatality crashes in Travis County Texas in 2008. By analyzing existing data of these characteristics from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) database, the results from Travis County will be compared to Texas’ ten most populated …
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Driver Injury Metric and Risk Variability as a Function of Occupant Position in Real World Motor Vehicle Crashes
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a worldwide public health concern, resulting in annual totals of approximately 1.24 million deaths and 20-50 million injured occupants. Real world crash reconstructions using finite element (FE) vehicle and human body models (HBMs) have the potential to elucidate …
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Formative Assessment: Documenting Motor Vehicle Crashes and Local Perceptions with the Hualapai Tribe to Inform Injury Prevention Recommendations
… was designed to understand factors influencing Motor Vehicle Crashes (MVCs) on or near the Hualapai Tribe’s reservation in northwestern Arizona. The goal is to enable the Tribe to develop and implement a locally relevant MVC intervention program. The specific aims were to: i) compile and analyze …
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DEVELOPMENT OF SIMILARITY SCORING TECHNIQUES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH COMPARISONS
Motor vehicle crashes result in thousands of deaths and millions of injuries each year in the United States (US). To help prevent these injuries and deaths, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conduct crash tests, which …
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Optimal speed limit for shared-use roadways
Motor vehicle crashes are a serious social problem in the United States. Each year a large number of motor vehicle crashes occur and many people are killed or injured, resulting in substantial economic costs. To minimize economic costs, it is necessary to determine optimal speed limits on roadways …
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Identification of risk factors for crashes involving older drivers
… on the involvement of the older drivers in motor vehicle crashes. Examples of potential factors influencing older driver crashes include intersection/roadway geometrics, type of traffic control, traffic signal phasing, light conditions. A methodology is developed to model older driver …
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Evaluation of Lower Extremity Injury Mitigation and Investigation of Thoracolumbar Loading of Restrained Occupants During Frontal Crashes
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) of passenger vehicles are commonly cited and reported in published literature as a leading cause of death and injury. Similarly, in motorsports, on-track crashes are the leading cause of driver injury.
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Road Traffic Injuries in the Pacific: The epidemiology of road traffic injuries in Fiji and the role of driver sleepiness
… contribution of driver sleepiness to fourwheel motor vehicle crash injuries in Viti Levu, Fiji. Methods Systematic reviews evaluated the published evidence on: (1) the burden of RTI in Pacific Island countries; and (2) the role of driver sleepiness in motor vehicle crashes in low- and …
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Estimating Pedestrian Crashes at Urban Signalized Intersections
… models are used to estimate the number of crashes using a set of explanatory variables. The highway safety community has used modeling techniques to predict vehicle-to-vehicle crashes for decades. Specifically, generalized linear models (GLMs) are commonly used because they can model …
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Computational Modeling of Lower Extremity and Thoracolumbar Spine Response in Automotive and Spaceflight Landing
… million non-fatal injuries occur annually from motor vehicle crashes. Frontal crashes remain the most common crash mode, and lower extremity injuries are the leading AIS 2+ injury for drivers involved in frontal crashes. While there has been steady improvement in standardized vehicle crash test …
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Validation of the Global Human Body Models Consortium Mid-Sized Male Model in Lateral Impacts and Sled Tests
Motor vehicle crashes kill about 1.2 million people worldwide each year making it one of the most common causes of death. Side impact injuries are particularly dangerous and present different injury patterns than those seen in frontal crashes. This implies that any kind of predictive model must not …
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Validity of Self-Reported Data on Seat Belt Use: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
… the 10 leading causes of death for Americans. Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 40,000 people and injure more than 3 million people annually in the United States, representing one of America's most serious health and economic problems. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety …
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A Finite Element Model of the Pregnant Female Occupant: Analysis of Injury Mechanisms and Restraint Systems
For women of reproductive age, automobile crashes are the leading cause of death worldwide. It has been estimated that 40,000 women in the second half of pregnancy are involved in motor-vehicle crashes each year. It has been estimated that between 300 to 3800 will experience a fetal loss. Placental …
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Understanding Motor Vehicle Crash Disparities Across Driver Demographics: The Role of Federally Mandated Rearview Cameras
Motor vehicle crashes remain a major public health concern, with disparities in motor vehicle crashes observed across race/ethnicity and socioeconomic factors. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have the potential to reduce crash risks, but disparities in access and associated outcomes …
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Characterization of Rib Cortical Bone Thickness Changes With Age and Sex
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) were the leading cause of unintentional fatal injuries and the fourth leading cause of unintentional nonfatal injuries in the United States in 2007. Of these injuries, the thoracic injuries rank second in terms of frequency as well as overall economic cost. Of the …
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Injury Metrics, Real World Crash Reconstruction, and Robust Injury Prediction for a Human Body Model in Side Impact
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a significant public health problem. Worldwide, MVCs kill over 1.2 million people each year. Improved understanding of the occupant loading conditions in real world crashes is critical for injury prevention and new vehicle design. Real world crash reconstructions …
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Development and Utilization of a Semi-Automated Finite Element Approach to Real World Motor Vehicle Crash Reconstruction to Investigate Lumbar Spine Injury
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the eighth leading cause of death globally, accounting for over 1.2 million deaths annually. In the United States alone, 30,000 deaths and 3.9 million injuries can be attributed to MVCs every year. To study real world injury incidence and causation, multiple …
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A retrospective review of MVC's during the 2022 Festive season in Namibia
Introduction: Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a public health concern and a major contributor to the morbidity and mortality of trauma patients globally. Morbidity and mortality from MVCs are forecasted to increase significantly by the year 2030. In 1998, MVCs were ranked as the 9th leading cause …
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The Application of a Radial Basis Function Morphing Technique to a Validated Full Human Body Finite Element Model
Motor vehicle crashes kill over 1 million people worldwide each year making them one of the most common causes of death. With finite element models being used as tools to study blunt injuries, it is critical to validate them in a range of loading scenarios to ensure accurate model outputs. While …
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Validation and Evaluation of Cortical and Full Skull Thickness Changes with Age and Sex
… brain injuries (TBI) each year where falls and motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the number one and two contributors. From 2002-2006 TBI accounted for 30% of all injury related deaths seen from emergency department visits despite the lower injury occurrence rate of 5%. Furthermore the TBIs from …
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