TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - ACN (automatic collision notification)--reducing fatalities in traffic accidents by automated accident reporting
JO  - Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie Kongressband
A1  - Pieske, Oliver
A1  - Lob, G.
A1  - Messner, G.
A1  - Lange, W.
A1  - Haberl, J.
SP  - 546
EP  - 548
VL  - 119
IS  - 
N2  - To improve patient's outcome of seriously injured occupants after vehicle accident rescue should be performed as soon as possible. While the rescue-time-period after EMS alarming is well-defined the rescue-time-period before EMS-alarm is very variable from minutes to several hours. To reduce the rescue-time-period between accident occurrence and EMS-alarm the Automatic Collision Notification (ACN) was developed. The ACN is a new invehicle-equipment which detects a severe vehicle crash and alarms via cellular phone the EMS automatically. Simultaneously the exact accident location is transmitted (GPS). Official data of the European Community predict a 15% reduction of road traffic fatalities with ACN. Thereby the economical benefit of about 561 million [symbol: see text] could be calculated for Germany 2000.
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SN  - 1868-1050
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -