Master and Servant: Automobile Accident: Relation of Parties

1909 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 526
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Accident

Belief in a Just World and the Perceived Injustice of Dying Young or Old

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison L. Chasteen ◽  
Scott F. Madey
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Just World ◽  
Perceived Injustice ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Perceived Justice ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
Relative Value

We investigated how belief in a just world (i.e., that people get what they deserve) affects the perceived injustice of dying young versus dying old. Younger and older adult participants completed a measure of their just world beliefs and then were randomly assigned to read one of four newspaper articles purportedly about a person who died in an automobile accident. In the articles, both the victim's age (19 or 79) and the victim's outlook on life (concerned about the future or living for today) were varied. Results indicated that participants viewed the death of a younger victim as more unjust than the death of an older victim. Older adults, however, experienced less negative affect than did younger adults when reading the article. Older adults also expressed a higher belief in a just world (BJW) than did younger adults. In addition, BJW was related to perceived justice. Participants with a higher BJW perceived the deaths of both victims as more tragic and unjust than did those with a low BJW. The victim's outlook on life did not affect perceived justice. Implications for medical decision-making, the use of aggressive treatment, and the relative value of youth versus age are discussed.

scholarly journals Unique Methods of Visual Presentation With Respect to Accident Reconstruction

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Accident Reconstruction ◽  
Engineering Communication ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
Direct Form ◽  
Forensic Engineering

Obviously, communication is one of the most important aspects of forensic engineering. Communication is certainly important between both the engineer and the lawyer as well as the engineer and the jury. Of course, communication involves not only sending a message to someone but also making sure that the message is understood by the person receiving it. Speaking and sending letters are two methods of sending a message. However, perhaps a more direct form of communication is visual. The old adage 'a picture is worth a thousand words' has been proven many, many times. Therefore, this discussion deals with two very specific methods of achieving communication through visual presentation. First of all, understand that these two methods are directed primarily toward accident reconstruction. For purposes of illustration, an automobile accident will be used as an example; however, these methods can be applied to other types of accidents as well. The first method, one involving aerial photography, is currently under development. The other method, which is primarily graphic, is already developed and available through several graphic companies or individuals.

scholarly journals Forensic Engineering Critique Of Alleged Need Of A Protected Left Turn Lane

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
First Principles ◽  
The State ◽  
Left Turn ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
Forensic Engineering ◽  
Highway Patrol ◽  
Driver Error

An Automobile Accident Is Reconstructed From Photographs Taken At The Scene By The California Highway Patrol. The Plaintiff Attorney Claimed That There Should Have Been A Protected Left Turn Lane. The State Claimed That The Accident Was Not Caused By The Absence Of A Left Turn Pocket And Was The Result Of Driver Error. This Paper Describes How The Accident Was Reconstructed By The Author Using Only Photo-Graphs Taken By The Chp And First Principles Of Physics. This Reconstruction Is Compared To That Of The Plaintiff Expert Who Used The Commercial Computer Program Pc-Crash.

scholarly journals Automobile Accident Sensing Unit and Notifier using Arduino

2017 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 05-08
Author(s):  
M. Jerin Jose ◽  
S. Akmal Jahan ◽  
R. Arunachalam ◽  
R. Karnan ◽  
V. Kishore
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Accident

scholarly journals Empire’s accidents: Law, lies, and sovereignty in the “war on terror” in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-80
Author(s):  
Maira Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
The North ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Tribal Areas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This essay tracks the relationship between the legal and the lethal in the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations in Pakistan as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. I juxtapose an account of an automobile accident in Lahore on 26 January 2011 involving the Blackwater employee, Raymond Davis, with a drone strike in the North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan’s (former) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the day after Davis was released by a court in Pakistan. I examine these “sovereign accidents” as articulations of the legal, political and democratic, and as sites upon which to (re)build understandings of sovereignty and its flourishes. Contrary to the popular tendency to see FATA as a marginal border region, that quintessential space of exception, I examine the FATA as jurisdiction. I thread together political discourse and practice in the U.S. and Pakistan, and by examining media coverage and litigation around the accidents, I show how a question of freedom of information in one setting is a question of life itself in another setting. At stake is the meaning and valence of law, the political, and the promise of postcolonial sovereignty.

Penetrating neck injury (an unusual automobile accident)

1972 ◽  
Vol 86 (12) ◽  
pp. 1253-1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Abrol ◽  
B. M. L. Kapur ◽  
M. Raveendran
Keyword(s):  
Neck Injury ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
Penetrating Neck Injury

Functional Role of the Superior Articular Facets of the Atlas in the Enhancement of Craniovertebral Junction Stability

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Hallgren ◽  
Erik Cattrysse ◽  
Jesse M. Zrull
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Spine ◽  
Sagittal Plane ◽  
Craniovertebral Junction ◽  
Transverse Plane ◽  
Automobile Accidents ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Posterior Translation ◽  
Developmental Variations

Whiplash distortions of the cervical spine, occurring during the retraction phase of a rear end automobile accident, are known to cause posterior translation of the head relative to the chest and shoulders [1,2]. This anteroposterior shear produces sagittal plane rotation of the cervical spine which results in relative flexion between the occiput and the atlas (Fig. 1). This study demonstrates that there is a significant difference between the average angles of the anterior aspects and the posterior aspects of the superior facets of the atlas with respect to a horizontal (transverse) plane at P<0.01. We hypothesize that developmental variations in some individuals will allow excessive posterior translation of the head during rear end automobile accidents, and that this excessive motion may increase the risk of sustaining a whiplash-type injury for some individuals.

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