Seatbelt: It can also kill you

In United States of America there are near three million people injured in motor vehicle accidents (MVA) and near forty two thousand fatalities on this type of accidents each year according to the data provided by the national highway traffic safety administration. Of these injured people near 75% of them were using a seat belt when the accident occur. [NOR03]. It is indisputable that seatbelts save lives and reduce the severity of the injuries in patients …

…Weaver, M.D. Department of surgery, division of vascular surgery and trauma surgery, University of southern California, Los Angeles, California 2002. 5.<Tab/>[NOR03] National Overview of Recent Highway Safety Data (May 2003). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. www.nhtsa.dot.gov 6.<Tab/> [Sch00] Blunt traumatic mammary hematoma as part of a seatbelt syndrome M. Wintermark, P. Schnyder Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital, CHUV BH10, 1011 Lausanne SWITZERLAND 2000