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2. Traffic collision - Wikipedia

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   A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.

3. Crash test dummy - Wikipedia

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   Ward, of Parsonstown, Ireland, was thrown out of a motor vehicle and killed. [10] Thirty years later, on September 13, 1899, Henry Bliss became North America's first motor vehicle fatality when hit while stepping off a New York City trolley. The need for a means of analyzing and mitigating the effects of motor vehicle accidents on humans was ...

4. Road collision types - Wikipedia

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   Some of these are secondary events that occur after a collision with a roadway departure crash or a collision with another vehicle. If several vehicles are involved, the term 'serial crash' may be used. If many vehicles are involved, the term 'major incident' may be used rather than 'pile up'.

5. Lists of traffic collisions - Wikipedia

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6. List of countries by traffic-related death rate - Wikipedia

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   This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...

7. List of ICD-9 codes E and V codes: external causes of injury ...

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   E800 Railway accident involving collision with rolling stock; E801 Railway accident involving collision with other object; Excludes: Collision with: aircraft (E840-E842) or motor vehicle (E810.-, E820-E822)

8. National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act - Wikipedia

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   Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...

9. Vehicle extrication - Wikipedia

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   Crashed car. Vehicle extrication is the process of removing a patient from a vehicle which has been involved in a motor vehicle collision. [1] Patients who have not already exited a crashed vehicle may be medically (cannot exit a vehicle due to their injuries) or physically trapped, [2] and may be pinned by wreckage, or unable to exit the vehicle because a door will not open.