TY - JOUR PY - 1963// TI - The nature and causation of fatal road injuries to car occupants on various types of British roads JO - Proceedings: American Association for Automotive Medicine Annual Conference A1 - Gissane, W. A1 - Bull, J. SP - 443 EP - 455 VL - 7 IS - N2 - This paper lists the three main causes of vehicle occupant injuries as: 1) Movements of unrestrained occupants within their vehicle; 2) Deformation intrusion of the passenger compartment; and 3) Ejection of occupants from their vehicles. The authors call for safer car design, safer packaging of car occupants, efficient tie-down of contents in the passenger compartment, and special protection in the passenger compartment through strengthening of its bulkhead, sides and roof.

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