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Motor Vehicle Impact Injury

The introduction of both front and side air bags and other technological advances in vehicle restraint systems, designed to protect occupants in both front and side impact crashes, is both reducing overall injury severity, but also radically altering the pattern of injuries. There is a need to understand what this change is, what the injury mechanisms are, what are the costs associated with this, and what could be done to mitigate these injuries. In addition there is a need to monitor the effect of FMVSS 208 and 214 which regulate frontal and side protection.

Read more from the NHTSA article Motor Vehicle Impact Injury Mechanisms To Restrained Occupants -