Has increased body weight made driving safer?

RA Dunn, NW Tefft - Health economics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a model of alcohol consumption that incorporates the negative biological
relationship between body mass and inebriation conditional on total alcohol consumption …

Evaluation of behaviour of an obese human body model in frontal sled tests

H Joodaki, B Gepner, M Katagiri… - International journal of …, 2021 - inderscienceonline.com
The goal of this study was to assess the behaviour of an obese Human Body Model (HBM)
in frontal sled tests. The results of rear-seat sled tests with an obese (BMI= 35) Post Mortem …

Intelligent Protection

J Wang, B Nie, H Wang - The Intelligent Safety of Automobile, 2023 - Springer
Intelligent protection (IP) refers to the identification of collision severity and damage risk in
dangerous driving scenarios based on damage mechanism and key influencing factors of …

Field Data Study of the Effect of Knee Airbags on Lower Extremity Injury in Frontal Crashes

MA Schafman, M Meitzner, D Baker, MA Beebe… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - sae.org
Knee airbags (KABs) are one countermeasure in newer vehicles that could influence lower
extremity (LEX) injury, the most frequently injured body region in frontal crashes. To …

[HTML][HTML] Thoracolumbar spine fracture occurring in obese people involved in motor vehicle crashes

S Ejima, C Kohoyda-Inglis, J MacWilliams… - … Research Council on …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Crash data from the International Center of Automotive Medicine (ICAM) database, with
analytic morphomics, were used to evaluate thoracolumbar spine fractures for obese …

A three-dimensional model of skeletal muscle for physiological, pathological and experimental mechanical simulations

B Winkel - 2020 - e-pub.uni-weimar.de
In recent decades, a multitude of concepts and models were developed to understand,
assess and predict muscular mechanics in the context of physiological and pathological …

Anesthetic Considerations for the Trauma Patient with Obesity

MW Oh, J Valencia, TS Moon - Current Anesthesiology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This article aims to review the specific challenges
anesthesiologists may face when caring for trauma patients with obesity and provide current …

Overweight and the sexual assault forensic medical examination: A pressing problem

K Kramer - Journal of forensic and legal medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper examines the problems faced by forensic physicians assessing overweight
victim/survivors of sexual assault, using sample cases and reviewing the literature. This …

Obesity, where is it driving us?

M Lavallière, GA Handrigan, N Teasdale… - … Safety & Security, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Obesity is recognized as an important issue that has an impact on several areas of our daily
lives, such as driving. In the literature there exists an association between obesity and motor …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of driver attributes on lower abdomen contour

MP Reed, BK Park, JJ Hallman - … Council on the Biomechanics of Injury, 2015 - ircobi.org
Previous studies have documented increased injury risks for high-body mass index (BMI)
and older drivers in frontal crashes. Laboratory studies have shown that age and particularly …