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Air bags and children: a potentially lethal combination

McCaffrey et al., 1999

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10018098102352678082
Author
McCaffrey M
German A
Lalonde F
Letts M
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

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Air bags have been responsible for saving thousands of lives since their introduction in the early 1970s. Now, however, it has become apparent that under certain conditions, these restraint mechanisms designed to save lives have in fact been the cause of needless …
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