TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1978//
TI  - Traffic accidents and seat belts: thorax injuries
JO  - Langenbecks archiv fur chirurgie
A1  - Kraft-Kinz, J.
A1  - Zalaudek, G.
SP  - 359
EP  - 365
VL  - 347
IS  - 
N2  - The types of injuries to 313 automobile accident victims, especially thorax injuries, are compared. Independent of seat belt use (42%), there was in general a higher degree of injury. Those wearing seat belts had a markedly less severe AISm (median degree of injury of body region) and less severe thorax injury. Severe thorax injury was first found at speeds greater than 24 km/h above average. Severer thorax injury is to be expected with defective seat belts (AISm = 1.25) than with properly functioning belts (AISm = 0.32).
LA  - 
SN  - 0023-8236
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -