This paper used the data of automobile traffic accidents from 2018 to 2020 in Chinese National Automobile Accident In-Depth Investigation System. The prediction features accident severity are innovated. Four that did not participate importance ranking were added: location, form, road information, and collision speed. Eight (engine capacity, hour day, age vehicle, month year, day week, band driv...

Résumé Introduction: Les accidents de scooter sont de plus en plus fréquents à Dakar. Le but de ce travail est de rapporter les aspects épidémiologiques et lésionnels des ces accidents chez l'enfant à Dakar. Méthodes: Une étude rétrospective et descriptive a été menée dans le Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique du CHU Aristide Le Dantec de Dakar entre le 1 janvier 2009 et le 31 décembre 2011. Nous...

An illustrative case of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) emphasizes features that help to separate focal outer head trauma owing to blows and/or falls from angular acceleration head injuries associated with diffuse inner brain lesions. In the past, explaining significant neurological deficits and death as the result of diffuse closed head trauma received from high-speed automobile accidents has been...

Analysis of fatality automobile accident data can be challenging in rural areas where a relatively small number of such accidents occurs on specific sections of highways. Combining crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and highway networks and design specifications from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT), this article employs Poisson regression analysis to ...

A 22-year-old man died following a side impact blow in an automobile accident. Necropsy showed a large tear in the posterior wall of the aorta approximately 12 mm distal to the insertion of ligamentum arteriosum (Figures 1 and 2). Subadventitial hemorrhage was prominent in the descending thoracic aorta. Th e left pleural space contained large quantities of blood. Traumatic aortic rupture is the...

In the last 35 years, the study of acetabular fractures has evolved thanks to the initial work of Judet and Letournel1, to the publication of Letournel and Judet2 and to the research of other authors who have followed in the same school3. Acetabular fractures are caused by high-energy trauma, with traffic accidents, especially automobile accidents being their main cause3. The increase in the nu...