During 1 year we monitored changes in clinical disability scores in 10 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) who sustained head trauma from motor vehicle accidents. Disability significantly increased immediately after trauma, but returned to baseline levels in subsequent weeks. These patients' signs deteriorated over the subsequent year, but this decline was equivalent to that of a matched con...

A report of two teenagers is presented who were passengers of the same vehicle when it was involved in a serious road traffic accident. Their vehicle was hit on the side at high speed by a second vehicle. Both teenagers sustained multiple injuries. On arrival at a district general hospital they required resuscitation, exploratory laparotomies, and postoperative intensive care. Neither had radio...

An atlanto-occipital dislocation is a rare airbag-induced injury in trauma patients. We report a case of an atlanto-occipital dislocation in a 6-year-old patient who was an unrestrained passenger in the front seat of a vehicle involved in a low-speed motor vehicle accident. This case illustrates the fatal threat of airbag deployment to the child passenger travelling in the vehicle front seat ev...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the contributions of rural residence, alcohol use, and pedestrian fatalities to the high American Indian motor-vehicle crash mortality rate in Arizona. METHODS Records from the Fatal Accident Reporting System were used to examine mortality rates between 1979 and 1988. RESULTS American Indians had increased relative risks in all motor-vehicle crash categories ...

The research objective of this work was to describe typical accident scenarios for pedestrian accidents. The accident analysis forms a component of work by the AEB Test Group which aims to develop test procedures for assessing Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems. This technology is penetrating the vehicle market and is designed to offer protection against the occurrence and severity of c...

To understand well a text written in natural language (NL), we need our knowledge about the norms of its domain. By the word “norm”, we mean here the normal and expected course of events in the absence of exceptions [6]. This type of knowledge enables us to infer richer conclusions than those given by means of truthpreserving entailments, for example, from the text: “Mon véhicule se trouvait ar...