Belted Driver Fatalities: Time of Death and Risk by Injury Severity.

CONCLUSIONS: The risk for belted driver deaths exponentially increased with MAIS. A majority of deaths occurred within 2.5 hours of the crash. On average, fatally injured drivers experienced 2.64 AIS 4+ injuries, primarily to the head and thorax. PMID: 28738161 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research