Published in Applied Ergonomics
Approximately 20% of all fatal traffic crashes in India involve riders of motorized two-wheelers. Head protection of two-wheeler riders is therefore a very important issue. This paper reports the results of a survey of patterns of motorcycle helmet use in Delhi, and the design details of a more comfortable helmet. The survey results were used as gu...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of potential risk factors—such as driving without a license, alcohol use, speed, seat belt, and helmet—use on fatality in motor vehicle traffic accidents. Unconditional multiple logistic regression analysis was employed to take these factors and age into account, simultaneously. The effect of d...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
The first year of the mandatory bicycle helmet laws in Australia saw increased helmet wearing from 31% to 75% of cyclists in Victoria and from 31% of children and 26% of adults in New South Wales (NSW) to 76% and 85%. However, the two major surveys using matched before and after samples in Melbourne (Finch et al. 1993; Report No. 45, Monash Univ. A...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
The side of the head is a frequent impact site for pedal cyclists, motorcyclists, and industrial workers. It is vulnerable to impact, yet many helmet standards do not have impact tests at the side of the helmet. Laboratory impact tests should reproduce the phenomena in real impacts, but usually they do not allow the headform to rotate, or ignore th...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
Concerns about bicycle-related deaths and injuries have led to extensive injury prevention efforts in the United States, yet these concerns are not universal. For instance, in France attitudes toward bicycle safety are quite different. To understand more about variation in urban bicycle safety behavior, we observed passing bicyclists in Paris and B...
Published in Paediatrics & child health
Earlier studies of ski injury indicated that youths were at increased risk of injury, that males were most likely to injure the head or face, and that females were most likely to injure the knee. To obtain information about safety knowledge and risk behaviour that might contribute to injury among young skiers and snow-boarders. Survey of knowledge ...
Published in Critical Reviews in Neurosurgery
The surgical indication in posterior plagiocephaly has been and still is a subject of discussion. Unlike other types of craniosynostosis, this particular type of cranial deformity does not show the typical radiological findings that are encountered in cases of prematurely fused cranial sutures. Furthermore, in most cases even the inspective evaluat...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of helmet wearing and the New Zealand helmet wearing law on serious head injury for cyclists involved in on-road motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle crashes. The study population consisted of three age groups of cyclists (primary school children (ages 5–12 years), secondary school children (ages 1...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
It was claimed that the bicycle helmet law in New Zealand reduced head injuries to adult cyclists by 28% (Povey, L.J., Frith, W.J., Graham, P.G., 1999. Cycle helmet effectiveness in New Zealand. Accident Analysis and Prevention 31, 763–770). However, the pre-law increase in adults wearing helmets (from 30% in 1990 to 43% in 1993) was accompanied by...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
Objectives: This study investigated the effect of the helmet act for motorcyclists on increasing helmet use and reducing motorcycle-related deaths and severe injuries in Thailand. Methods: Data were derived from a trauma registry at the Khon Kaen Regional Hospital in the northeast Thailand. Helmet use and outcome in motorcycle crashes were compared...
