Hossack D W
Med J Aust. 1975 May 31;1(22):678-9.
A survey is presented of injuries received in 470 road accidents involving fatal injuries to pedestrians. A comparison is made between the absolute incidence of fatal major injuries in pedestrians and that in the occupants of vehicles. Whereas head and chest injuries in combination are also major causes of death in pedestrians, the greater frequency of traumatic lesions of the spine and lower extremities in pedestrians was to be expected. As in the case of car occupants, the contribution to death of aspirated blood and vomitus was extremely high.
本文呈现了一项针对470起涉及行人致命伤的道路交通事故中所受伤害的调查。对行人与车辆驾乘人员中致命重伤的绝对发生率进行了比较。虽然头部和胸部联合损伤也是行人死亡的主要原因，但行人脊柱和下肢创伤性损伤的发生率较高是意料之中的。与汽车驾乘人员的情况一样，吸入血液和呕吐物对死亡的影响极大。
