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CRASH HELMETS REDUCE HEAD INJURIES
Author(s) -
Jamieson Kenneth G.,
Kelly D'Arcy
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb129780.x
Subject(s) - crash , injury prevention , poison control , medicine , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , head injury , incidence (geometry) , suicide prevention , medical emergency , legislation , head (geology) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , aeronautics , engineering , surgery , computer science , physics , pathology , geomorphology , law , political science , optics , programming language , geology
Studies of injury patterns of motorcyclists, motor‐ scooter riders and pillion passengers admitted to hospital or killed in Brisbane, before and after the introduction of legislation to make the wearing of crash helmets compulsory, indicate that greater usage of helmets has dramatically reduced both the incidence and the severity of head injury in these groups.