MEDICAL CRITICISM OF MODERN AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
- 30 October 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 138 (9) , 627-631
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1948.02900090001001
Abstract
Having been impressed by the rising number of deaths and injuries occasioned by the automobile, it occurred to me that by studying the types and mechanisms of these injuries certain facts could be determined which would prove that many of these deaths and injuries could be prevented by modifications in automotive design. Statistics of the National Safety Council, in its last full year's report, revealed that there were 33,700 deaths in motor vehicle accidents in 1946—an increase of 20 per cent over 1945. Injuries were approximately 1,200,000. Costs, including property damage, totaled about $2,200,000,000. This means 1 death every fifteen and a half minutes and 1 injury every twenty-six seconds, or that during the thirty minutes consumed in the presentation of this paper 2 deaths and 68 injuries will have taken place in this country. The magnitude of the problem is to some extent shown in a chart (fig. 1)Keywords
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