Peculiarities of injuries to the extremities of the driver and the front-seat passenger in a head-on collision between cars
Shadymov, A.B.; Novoselov, A.S.
Sudebno-Meditsinskaia Ekspertiza 52(1): 32-35
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0039-4521 PMID: 19371008 Document Number: 628687
The study included two stages. At the first one, it was experimentally established which segments of the upper and lower extremities of the driver and the front-seat passenger experience maximum traumatic stress at the moment offrontal collision between cars. At the second stage, results of forensic medical examination of the bodies of drivers and front-seat passengers who had died in motor-vehicle accidents were used to elucidate certain morphological features of the injured extremities and to clarify their possible mechanism.