My emboldening.cycle tramp wrote: ↑8 Aug 2024, 4:54pmWell....... duh. Yes, of course brain injury is more likely from side impacts and head on impacts if you are in a car and it suffers a collision... the sudden change in movement (or declaration) is likely to mean your head collides with something.tim-b wrote: ↑8 Aug 2024, 6:48am In 2022 Imperial College found the following:andThey found that change in speed at impact were good predictors of brain injury, as were the impact direction and the presence of head protection worn by cyclists.(Both quotes https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/233900/ ... p-predict/ )Claire Baker said: “Brain injury was more likely in car users involved in impacts from the side, and where the change in speed was greater, like during a head-on collision. It was also more likely in vulnerable road users, particularly where no head protection was worn.”
Tacking on the sentence 'it was also more likely in vulnerable road users particularly where no head protection is worn'... is meaningless without any percentages given.
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The quoted link is to a press release. The substantive publication is:
"The relationship between road traffic collision dynamics and traumatic brain injury pathology"
Claire E. Baker, Phil Martin, Mark H. Wilson, Mazdak Ghajari, David J. Sharp
Brain Communications, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2022, fcac033
https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac033
It includes some relevant statistics.
Jonathan