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E829 Other road vehicle accidents E829.0 Other road vehicle accidents injuring pedestrian; E829.4 Other road vehicle accidents injuring occupant of streetcar; E829.8 Other road vehicle accidents injuring other specified person; E829.9 Other road vehicle accidents injuring unspecified person
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.
Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object. These include head-on collisions and roadway departure collisions. Collisions at junctions, including rear-end collision and angle or side impacts
The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000). [3] Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males. [6]
3. Minor accidents: These accidents result in minor injuries that usually require little to no medical intervention. Another way to classify accidents is based on the type of event that caused them: 1. Traffic accidents: These accidents occur on roads and highways involving vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, and trucks. 2.
10-47 Emergency road repairs needed — 10-48 Traffic standard needs repairs 10-49 Hourly report mark Traffic light out East bound green light out (etc.) Accident and Vehicle Handling: 10-50 — Auto accident, property damage only Accident—F, PI, PD Traffic (F, PD) Traffic Hit and run; Injury; No injury reported; Unknown; Private property ...
Major trauma sometimes is classified by body area; injuries affecting 40% are polytrauma, 30% head injuries, 20% chest trauma, 10%, abdominal trauma, and 2%, extremity trauma. [4] [6] Various scales exist to provide a quantifiable metric to measure the severity of injuries. The value may be used for triaging a patient or for statistical analysis.
Regarding other sources, only a few accident databases on rollover accidents exist. — European union Rollover Final Public Report - Annexes (May 2006) [ 48 ] Although only less than 10% of all vehicle accidents with severe injuries involve rollovers, approximately 25% of all seriously injured occupants were involved in accidents where their ...