Reconstruction of crashes involving injured child occupants: The risk of serious injuries associated with sub-optimal restraint use may be reduced by better controlling occupant kinematics

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-61

  Bilston, Lynne E ^a,b   Yuen, Michael ^a   Brown, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b POWMRI   (Australia)

Author keywords

Booster Seat; Child Restraint; Injury Prevention; Restraint Misuse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEATBELT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; INFANT EQUIPMENT; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SEAT BELTS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33847076755     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580600990352     Document Type: Article

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