title: Injury patterns in motor vehicle fatalities.
abstract: A retrospective pilot study of motor vehicle incident fatalities was conducted to determine what relationships exist between injuries received by deceased drivers, passengers, and a control population of pedestrians, and some of the environmental factors existing at the time of the incident. A number of correlations were established between the types and locations of injuries received, seat belt use, position of the injured party, and so forth. A study of this type, if performed on a large enough population, could lead to predictive models for the determination of position of the victims within a motor vehicle at the time of a fatal crash, based on a unique clustering of injuries.
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000293:injuries; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D012622:Seat Belts; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000473:pathology*